Salt Pier - Couverture souple

Kiesselbach, Dore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822962179 ISBN 13 : 9780822962175

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

Synopsis

"Emotionally direct and visually all alike in column-shaped free verse, the poems in this debut from the Minneapolis-based Kiesselbach open up to show startling verbal skills, intellectual depths, and sensory complications. 'Beach Thanksgiving' wheels from seaside scenes into one, then another, sad memory: 'Fire’s an assortment of sparks down the beach/ beside which your new family cooks./ Asked to bear a ring,/ you pulled and pulled at your hair.' For an elderly mother, once a gardener, 'Joy’s bolted/ in her face to sorrow/ like a pair of shears.' Marital love in the present (Kiesselbach has a particular talent for love poems), what looks like abuse in the past, the cycle of green growing things, the cold of the north, and the warmth of the animal world all inform these investigations of confession and its discontents, of commitments given and withheld, sometimes through stark life story but more often, in a wonderful involution, through symbols contemplated at short remove—in turkeys, for example, whose unlikely dignity rebukes human discontents: 'In fall’s/ ballroom they bow/ and straighten, straighten,/ bow, and finish/ with a salad course.'\u201d —Publishers Weekly

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dore Kiesselbach's first collection, Salt Pier, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and contains work chosen for the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and Britain's Bridport International Writing Prize in poetry. Kiesselbach has published poetry and prose in many magazines and anthologies, including AGNI, Antioch Review, FIELD, Plume, and Poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822962179
• ISBN 13: 9780822962175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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