How Many Faces Do You Have? - Couverture souple

Schneider, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1680031325 ISBN 13 : 9781680031324

Editeur : Texas Review Press, 2017

Synopsis

How Many Faces Do You Have? is a poem sequence that interrogates intimacy, each poem a face the poet discovers, a reflection revealed in response to inner questioning. In a voice of quiet sonority, these lyrics journey from a high-school gym dance to a moonlit beach polka. They linger over sushi in Montreal and an airline meal at 40,000 feet on a flight. They touch joy and pain and celebrate the vicissitudes of love that goes "into the tangled heartland / where there is no trail," as a gift of being.

A face

is such a strange thing. Obsessed

with distortion, Modigliani

loved elongated faces

like Tamara's at a distance,

a flattened oval, two black jewels. He

painted with a dagger

in his teeth, they say, to see the face

within the face -- grave,

cold-eyed as Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt,

whom I've always loved

for her name alone.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MIKE SCHNEIDER's poems have appeared in many journals, including Hunger Mountain, New Ohio Review, Notre Dame Review and Poetry. His chapbook Rooster was a Main Street Rag Editor's Choice in 2004. He received the 2012 Editors Award in Poetry from The Florida Review. He lives in Pittsburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas Review Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1680031325
• ISBN 13: 9781680031324
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 48
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