The Jade Bower: New and Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Altieri, Carol Leavitt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1419655949 ISBN 13 : 9781419655944

Editeur : Booksurge Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

A compelling and rare treat, The Jade Bower: New and Selected Poems by award-winning poet Carol Leavitt Altieri is a pendulum that swings between the brevity and misfortune of the natural world. A sheer and illuminating beauty is balanced on the long legs of poetics as the poet conveys the necessities of art and life in this collection that includes nearly ninety environmental humanistic poems. Broken into three sections, poems such as "Jesus Christ Lizards," "Viewing Giant Tortoises at Galapagos," "In Brazil's Rainforest Tribal Chief Marimo Fights Loggers" and "Wild Horses of Smoke Creek Desert," prove evocative with an incredible immediacy and passion. Often sublime, never subtle, these poems are imagistic, haunting and, ultimately, hopeful. As the poet moves through the perils of environmental lust and abuse, she offers a view of the perfect, unblemished earth that readers will revel and celebrate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carol Leavitt Altieri was awarded a degree in advanced study at Wesleyan University after receiving a master's in English and American literature and a sixth-year degree in educational leadership at Southern Connecticut State University. While there, she was named "Graduate Poet of the Year" and has since twice received Silver Laureate Award for Poetry by National Senior Poets Laureate. In 2006, she received first prize in California State Poetry Contest and first and third prize in Al Savard Memorial Poetry Contest of the Connecticut Poetry Society. Recipient of an English Speakers Union's Scholarship, Carol has studied English literature and culture at the University of London and participated in Yale/New Haven Teachers' Institute for six years. A member of the Guilford Poets' Guild, she is now a retired English and science teacher working as a literacy volunteer. She has published two previous books of poetry, In Beijing, There Are No Dawn Redwoods and The Isinglass River.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Booksurge Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1419655949
• ISBN 13: 9781419655944
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible