A Fine Dusting of Brightness - Couverture souple

Brooks, Dorothy Howe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0615839673 ISBN 13 : 9780615839677

Editeur : Aldrich Press, 2013

Synopsis

The title of this collection, A Fine Dusting of Brightness, also opens an extraordinary poem of literary description and exposition focused on Vermeer’s painting The Cook. These poems embody ekphrasis even when the subject of the poem is not a visual work of art. Many of the poems consider loss--the failings of age or sickness--and death, yet vivid observations become surprisingly juxtaposed images and skillful irony. For example, in “Final Gift,” as they dissect a loved one’s corpse, the student doctors give a kind of immortality: “you will live / in their learning.” In another poem, “Simple Fracture,” a mother recalls a son’s birth as he endures setting a broken bone--in both, the son is “holding me / tight against the pain.” For other writers, bereavement and desolation seem opposed to life, but for Dorothy Brooks, they extend the range of colors in “this ordinary moment: This life.”
--Carol Mahler

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dorothy Howe Brooks writes poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Poem, Louisiana Literature, and Iron Horse Literary Review. Her second chapbook, Interstices, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. She lives with her husband in Southwest Florida where they enjoy sailing in the coastal waters of the Gulf.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aldrich Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0615839673
• ISBN 13: 9780615839677
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92
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