Soul Data: Poems - Couverture souple

Svenvold-M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1574410466 ISBN 13 : 9781574410464

Editeur : University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2006

Synopsis

"Soul Data is rarely compounded--of wit and music, surface elegance and intellectual depth, quirk and quandary. Its sensual intelligence is on high alert, and the sheer unsheerness of its language--all its densities and textures--is a linguiphiliacal delight. Unmistakeably American (the poetry's occasions and its cadences alike serve for signature) it has the jinx-meister's humors about it. There's a dark streak, too, an eye for the natural indifferences that border the spotlit human heats. A fine rhetorical savvy, in a mind inclined to the chillier depths: among poetic gifts these days it's an uncommon conjunction, a gift of mysteries, like the sight (across a night pond's surface) of bright-blue shooting star: one hopes the other humans get to see it."--Heather McHugh

V [Linoleum]

South of Spokane Street, a gear works
turns its teeth--shadows in a cavern,
through the cycles of a drop-forge piston,
heft themselves and recoil in a dark
rain of sparks, the echo off the blocks--
pa-tang!--arriving late, repeats itself again,
a ceaseless, a remorseless hammering home,
a point made and lost in the patterns of work.
Across the street, a hunkered stretch of houses,
swing sets and cyclone fencing, a clatch of cars.
The agent shrugs--"It's zoned Residential/
Light Industrial"--pa-tong! A lunatic fringe
of gladiolus fronts the walkways and the rows
of empty rooms we roll by at low idle.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mark Svenvold, winner of The Nation "Discovery" Award, received his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines including AGNI, The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review and have been anthologized in Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets. He lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1574410466
• ISBN 13: 9781574410464
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 59
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible