Bonfire Opera: Poems - Brossura

Lameris, Danusha

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0822966050 ISBN 13: 9780822966050

Casa editrice: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2020

Riassunto

Poems In Praise of the Impossible, Wild World and Its Beauty 

Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, “bee-stung, drunk” in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake.
 
Excerpt from “Bonfire Opera”
 
In those days, there was a woman in our circle
who was known, not only for her beauty,
but also for taking off all her clothes and singing opera.
And sure enough, as the night wore on and the stars
emerged to stare at their reflections on the sea,
and everyone had drunk a little wine,
she began to disrobe, loose her great bosom
and the tender belly, pale in the moonlight,
the Viking hips, and to let her torn raiment
fall to the sand as we looked up from the flames.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Danusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her poems have been published in: The Best American Poetry,The New York Times,TheAmerican Poetry Review, Tin House, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. She teaches poetry independently, and is the current Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0822966050
• ISBN 13: 9780822966050
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 84
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile