Chrysalis in the Desert - Couverture souple

Saloman, Wendy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184861036X ISBN 13 : 9781848610361

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2009

Synopsis

The central poem in Wendy Saloman's new collection, and from which it takes its title, is the narrative of a woman's journey through various crises in Jewish history, from biblical times to modern Israel and Palestine. The protagonist, Rachel, is 'moving through time/as fire over water/as ash on ice'. 'Rivers and Revenants', the other main poem in the book, is again concerned with roots only this time the voyage is of a more personal nature: the author draws upon her own experiences of a visit to Lithuania in order to discover her grandfather's farmstead. In both these poems, and elsewhere in her work, there is conveyed the ever present drama between otherness and unity. Chrysalis in the Desert is Saloman's first book since Syllables and Leaves (Salzburg, 1997) and, although different in theme, it continues to fuse history and nature and to hold, as Mandelstam put it, 'the contradictions in one hand'. What informs the whole of her work is a belief that silence is the state from which all art must rise, and it is only from there that one may obtain a true hearing of the world and listen for, and learn from, the voices of the dead.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wendy Saloman's first collection of poems, Syllables and Leaves, was published by University of Salzburg Press in 1998. Prior to this she had contributed to an anthology of prose poems, A Curious Architecture (Stride Publications, 1996). Her work has appeared in magazines over the years and has also been translated into Estonian. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and later, as a mature student, read History of Ideas at Middlesex University, finally opting out to follow her own course of education. Abandoning a career in the theatre, she has spent most of her working life in art galleries. She lives in London with her husband, a ceramic sculptor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184861036X
• ISBN 13: 9781848610361
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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