The Willow Grove - Brossura

Sheck, Laurie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679766030 ISBN 13: 9780679766032

Casa editrice: Knopf, 1998

Riassunto

Interweaving the contemporary and the mythic, the poet's latest collection imagines a world in which the scenery of modern urban life--skyscrapers, television sets, expressways, and radios--become both familiar and evocative of something beyond. Reprint.

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"It's daring of Laurie Sheck to have made the myths surrounding Io so crucial to the central tenor of her poems, but the themes of exile, distance, and freedom from the falsehoods of secular appearance weave the title into her images, along with her own dedicated attention and moral passion." -- W. S. Merwin

"Io at Night is a rare achievement: A delicate, truly poetic sensibility has internalized and transmuted powerful myth, making memorable verse. Central to the collection is the classical myth of Io, with its resonant themes of exile, loss, and the longing for return, that provides explicit text for five poems and subtext for the rest of the collection. Io herself becomes both a living presence and metaphor for a fullness, whether of knowledge or being, only rarely achieved."

-- Robert E. Hosmer Jr., America

"Sheck's subjects are unabashedly big and not the least bit quaint. In her best poems the personal and mythic conspire to create an altogether memorable human story." -- Henri Cole, Poetry
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L'autore:

Laurie Sheck was born in The Bronx, New York, and now lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and daughter. She has received many awards for her poetry, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. She has published her poems widely in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares, and has had work included in The Pushcart Prize anthology and Best American Poetry 1991. She has taught at several colleges anti universities.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Knopf
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679766030
• ISBN 13: 9780679766032
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 80