Frail-Craft (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Jessica Fisher; foreword by Louise Gluck

ISBN 10: 0300122357 / ISBN 13: 9780300122350

Edité par Yale University Press, 2007

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First edition, 1st printing. Volume 101 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, selected by Louise Gluck. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread in AS NEW condition. "For all the music, all the sensuous detail of Fisher's art, her demeanor is essentially cool, measuring, intellectual---speculative may be a more accurate term. Her poems are analytic meditations, their variety and beauty manifestations of extraordinary sensitivity to English syntax. Meaning is here, saturating the lines: this is not meaning like a kite with its neat string of explication attached; neither is it rote repudiation. Many of the poems are exquisite spacially: Fisher likes to use the whole page; her descending accruing shapes mime the sensations of associative thought---phrases seem to flood in from different parts of the mind, different parts of the life. The effect is musical, like the winds taking over from the strings."---Louise Gluck. Pristine copy w/no creases or marks, quite presentable.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Frail-Craft (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300122357
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300122350
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: As New

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Synopsis

Jessica Fisher's Frail-Craft is Louise Glück's fourth selection for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the oldest annual literary prize in the United States. Through deft, quietly authoritative lyrics, the poet meditates on the problems and possibilities, the frail craft, of perception for the reader or the dreamer, maintaining that 'if the eye can love - and it can, it does - then I held you and was held'. In her foreword to the book, Louise Glück writes, 'What gives Jessica Fisher's work its sense of form, of repose, is her perfection of ear. That repose, with its strange mobility, its accommodation of surprise, is Fisher's particular genius. To enter these poems is to be suspended in them: like dreams, they both surround and elude.' __________________________________________________________ Frail-Craft It's a true story: we were at sea, together at risk, and he was very poor, a regular fisherman, from a family of such. He happened to fill the equation in the geometry of appetite I trace: for even the blind can see! And so you see it's not so much about the eye as whatever is made to serve the master who asks for wine, wants the pickled fruits de mer alongside the treatise on navigation and the maps that show what oceans hide. Yet men still drown in order to know the difference between sky and whatever name you give to the deep. Otherwise they see the sea as surface, want to sit on the beach and say Look at me, looking at the sea!

À propos de l?auteur

Jessica Fisher is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California at Berkeley. She is coeditor, with Robert Hass, of The Addison Street Anthology. She lives in Oakland.