Love, an Index (McSweeney's Poetry Series)

Lindenberg, Rebecca

ISBN 10: 1936365790 / ISBN 13: 9781936365791

Edité par McSweeney's Publishing, 2012

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Synopsis :

A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story?in verse?of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan. Lindenberg’s billowing, I-contain-multitudes style lays bare the poet’s sadnesses, joys, and longings in poems that are lyric and narrative, at once plainspoken and musically elaborate.

Regarding her role in Arnold’s story, Lindenberg writes with clear-eyed humility and endearing dignity: ?The girl with the ink-stained teeth / knows she’s famous / in a tiny, tragic way. / She’s not / daft, after all.” And then later, playfully, of her travels in Italy with the poet, her lover: ?The carabinieri / wanted to know if there were bears / in our part of America. Yes, we said, / many bears. Man-eating bears? Yes, of course, / many man-eating bears.” Every poem in this collection bursts with humor, pathos, verve?and an utterly unique, soulful voice.

This widely anticipated debut, already selected as a finalist for several prominent book awards, marks the first collection in the newly minted McSweeney’s Poetry Series. MPS is an imprint which seeks to publish a broad range of excellent new poetry collections in exquisitely designed hardcovers?poetry that’s useful and meaningful to anyone in any walk of life.

À propos de l'auteur: Rebecca Lindenberg is the grateful recipient of a 2012 MacDowell Arts Colony residency, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a 2009-2010 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship. Her poetry, essays, and criticism appear in The Believer, POETRY, Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, DIAGRAM, Mid-American Review, 32 Poems, Conjunctions, Huffington Post, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She lives and writes in northern Utah.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Love, an Index (McSweeney's Poetry Series)
Éditeur : McSweeney's Publishing
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : Very Good