Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything: Poems - Brossura

Richman, Jan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0807119946 ISBN 13: 9780807119945

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

In selecting this dazzling first collection of poems as winner of the 1994 Walt Whitman Award, Robert Pinsky praised Jan Richman for the "rowdy, restless intelligence" of her work. Indeed, all of the poems in Because the Brain Can Be Talked Into Anything are the result of a compulsive, unflinching inquisitiveness - a desire to make some sense of modern life by scrutinizing the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in our world.
Ultimately, among the surprising turns of language, the hard edges and twisted aphorisms of an outspoken narrator, the sense of personal history re-emerges as haunting and essential. The book offers no formula for self-knowledge; it winnows and rummages and, finally, finds truth in irony. This satiric/sincere dualism comes brilliantly through in "Why I'm the Boss".
As in all Richman's poems, the wise-cracking, urban-hip tone gives way to an extremely personal world view, and the raw emotional underpinnings are finally revealed. These poems announce a fresh and powerful new voice.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jan Richman 's poems have appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, the Bloomsbury Review, and many other journals. She has received the Felix Pollack Poetry Prize, a Discovery/The Nation Award, and the Celia B. Wagner Award. She lives in San Francisco.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0807119946
• ISBN 13: 9780807119945
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile