Intimate Letters: The Invisible World Is in Decline (7) - Couverture souple

Whiteman, Bruce

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1770412123 ISBN 13 : 9781770412125

Editeur : ECW Press,Canada, 2014

Synopsis

Intimate Letters comprises the seventh book of an ongoing long poem in prose called The Invisible World Is in Decline. Its title borrows from a string quartet by Leos Jánaček, a profoundly emotional piece written late in the composer's life when he had fallen in love with a younger woman. It also points towards the intimacy of letters themselves, the visible pieces that make up language. This collection begins with love poems, then moves to a section ("Wretched in This Alone") dominated by loss. The "Invisible Ghazals" which follow take language and emotions more deeply into a sense of dispossession, a landscape of the heart characterized by feeling unmoored. "Desire," the final poem, and the only piece in conventional poetic lines, attempts to rescue the heart from bleakness by proposing that passion does survive even the most difficult and demanding experiences, and "runs through our days like / music."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bruce Whiteman was born in 1952. He has published many books of poetry and cultural criticism and is well known as a book reviewer. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ECW Press,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1770412123
• ISBN 13: 9781770412125
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible