Five-paragraph Essay on the Body-mind Problem - Couverture souple

Trousdale, Rachel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0819501859 ISBN 13 : 9780819501851

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem is the inaugural winner of the Cardinal Poetry Prize, selected by renowned poet Robert Pinsky. In free verse and invented poetic forms, Rachel Trousdale explores how the interplay between the mind and body illuminates our most important relationships, whether with other humans, wild spaces, or works of art. Inhabited by crows, yetis, coral reefs, and aliens, these poems playfully examine the intensity and conflict of romantic love; the entropic joys of parenthood; illness and grief; and the ways our physical loves and intangible losses teach us responsibility to the world around us. [Sample Poem] Love Poem With Dereliction of Duty It's true—I like you more than I like the Marquis de Sade; God that mid-April afternoon in 1995, when I said, "let's take a walk" and you said "sure" and we circled the New Haven Green saying who the hell knows what because if we had seen all this falling in love stuff coming, we would have paid more attention; I just know it took two hours, past the churches and the porn shop and over to the cemetery with all those skull-topped slabs leaning memorially against the brownstone wall; round and round we went like marbles dodging the traps in a game of labyrinth; and finally back to campus through that big stone gate which we entered just as the prof of the philosophy class I was skipping came out and I said oh the pain the pain I can't take it any more and doubled up laughing

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

RACHEL TROUSDALE is a professor of English at Framingham State University. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, The Yale Review, Diagram, and other journals, as well as a chapbook, Antiphonal Fugue for Marx Brothers, Elephant, and Slide Trombone (2015). Her scholarly work includes Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2021) and Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination (2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819501859
• ISBN 13: 9780819501851
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible