A Map of the Lost World - Couverture souple

Hilles, Rick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822961822 ISBN 13 : 9780822961826

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

Synopsis

The poems that make up A Map of the Lost World range from tightly-wrought shorter lyrics to longer autobiographical narratives to patterns of homage (in several forms) of poets that Hilles admires and emulates (including Richard Hugo, James Wright, James Merrill and Larry Levis) to extended voice-driven meditations, one in the voice of a German Jewish woman, a prisoner who would escape a French concentration camp and go on to fight in the French resistance, to other efforts to confront history and not be devoured by history, and to locate, even resuscitate, friends lost to death, if only provisionally; though each poem in A Map of the Lost World is highly crafted and diversely rendered, in this collection, each poem finds its unifying impulse in it’s maker’s desire to span vast distances to reach loved ones, beloved others, the various families of friends, fueled by an almost gymnastic imagination that vaults itself into almost any space—going to almost any length—sustained by the various forms of love, which, after all, may be as close as any of us has come (in this or any life) to knowing and warming ourselves, if not also at times being scalded by, the immortal fires of the Infinite.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rick Hilles, associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the poetry collections, Brother Salvage, winner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the 2006 Foreword Poetry Book of the Year, and A Map of the Lost World, a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. He has been the recipient of a Whiting Award, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and a Camargo Fellowship. He lives in Nashville.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822961822
• ISBN 13: 9780822961826
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 82
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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