Perennial Fall - Brossura

Dietz, Maggie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226148505 ISBN 13: 9780226148502

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2006

Riassunto

At the heart of this unusually accomplished and affecting first book of poetry is the idea of the hinge—the point of connection, of openings and closings. Maggie Dietz situates herself in the liminal present, bringing together past and future, dream and waking, death and life. Formally exact, rigorous, and tough, these poems accept no easy answers or equations.

Dietz creates a world alive with detail and populated with the everyday and strange: amusement-park horses named Virgil and Sisyphus, squirrels hanging over tree branches “like fish.” By turns humorous and pained, direct and mysterious, elegiac and elegant, the poems trace for us the journey and persistence of the spirit toward and through its “perennial fall”—both the season and the human condition. Cumulatively, the work moves toward a fragile transcendence, surrendering to difficulty, splendor, and strangeness.

“In Perennial Fall, distinct, hard-edged images create a haunting counter-play of distortion, troubled insight or menace. The simultaneous clarity and shadow has the quality of a dream that can be neither forgotten nor settled. This is a spectacular debut and more than that—a wonderful book.”—Robert Pinsky

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L'autore

Maggie Dietz is lecturer in creative writing at Boston University and assistant poetry editor forSlate magazine. She is coeditor of three books, most recently AnInvitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0226148505
• ISBN 13: 9780226148502
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 71