The Anchorage: Poems - Couverture souple

Wunderlich, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1558492003 ISBN 13 : 9781558492004

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 1999

Synopsis

In this debut collection, Mark Wunderlich creates a central metaphor of the body as anchor for the soul--but it is a body in peril, one set in motion through the landscape of desire. In poems located in New York's summer streets, in the barren snowfields of Wisconsin, and along stretches of Cape Cod's open shoreline, the lover speaks to the beloved in the form of lyrical missives, arguments, and intimate monologues. The poems converse with each other; images repeat and echo in an effect that is strange and beautiful. Uniting the collection is an original and consistent voice--one that has found a hard won stance against the haphazard and negotiates with what is needful and sufficient. The Anchorage is a collection of love poems for the end of the millennium and takes as its subjects the dichotomies of love and illness, the urban and the rural, homosexual desire and familial tension. Wunderlich faces the complexities of contemporary life through poems that are both tender and striving and that leave the reader with an image of the body as a door through which one can transcend the suffering of the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mark Wunderlich is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Winner of the 1997 Writers at Work Poetry Fellowship, he is also the recipient of a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558492003
• ISBN 13: 9781558492004
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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