Azores: Poems - Couverture souple

Yezzi, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804011133 ISBN 13 : 9780804011136

Editeur : Swallow Press, 2008

Synopsis

A Slate Best Book of 2008
Included in Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses

Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience--a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene. The ever-present and uncomfortable realities of envy, lust, and mortality haunt the book from poem to poem. Yezzi does not shy away from frank assessments of desire and human failing, the persistent difficulties of which are relieved periodically by a cautious optimism and even joy. Whether the poem's backdrop is volcanic islands in the Mid-Atlantic or Manhattan Island at sunset, Yezzi examines the forces of change in the natural world, as w hether mundane or startlingly intimate. By turns plainspoken, caustic, evocative, and wry, these poems are, in matters of form, well-wrought and musical and, in matters of the heart, clear-eyed and always richly human.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Yezzi 's books of poetry are Azores, Sad Is Eros, and The Hidden Model. His libretto for a chamber opera by David Conte, Firebird Motel, received its world premiere in 2003 and was released on CD by Arsis in 2007. His poems and criticism have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, The Best American Poetry 2006, and elsewhere. He is executive editor of the New Criterion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Swallow Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804011133
• ISBN 13: 9780804011136
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 56
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible