The Sound Boat: New and Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Vollmer, Judith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299336948 ISBN 13 : 9780299336943

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2022

Synopsis

Judith Vollmer's sixth collection explores human voices and geographies, stories and mysteries, and natural phenomena inside urban spaces. Her lyrical narratives, character portraits, locational investigations, and choral fragments often emerge from physical objects and from green and/or ruined cityscapes. Vollmer's home city, Pittsburgh, and its sister-locations within Italy and Poland, undergird her attention to orientation and perception at work in her poems' acutely visual studies.

Featuring twenty-one new and fifty-seven selected poems from her earlier volumes--The Apollonia Poems, The Water Books, Reactor, The Door Open to the Fire, and Level Green--The Sound Boat reveals Vollmer's devotion to examining place and space to uncover poetry that touches emotions related to wandering physical and emotional realms: some familial and deeply personal, some unknowable.
Old city, I've come East for your long day and endless night:

down in the street, between the turtle fountain and the iron head

the party shouts and sings, sweats and snakes, swells into a throb

or momentum of sound.

--Excerpt from "The Sound Boat"

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Judith Vollmer is the author of five previous collections, including The Apollonia Poems, which also won the Four Lakes Prize. Her writing has appeared in Poetry International, The Women's Review of Books, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg and teaches privately.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299336948
• ISBN 13: 9780299336943
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 182
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• Personne responsable: non disponible