The After-Death History Of My Mother - Brossura

McIntosh, Sandy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0975919741 ISBN 13: 9780975919743

Casa editrice: Marsh Hawk Pr, 2005

Riassunto

The poems in The After-Death History of My Mother involve the work of mourning. They come to terms with mortality and reparation for acute loss in surreal, dream-like encounters between the living and the departed. McIntosh confronts the constraints imposed by history on the present and loosens those strictures through the charms of his imagination. An elegantly crafted long poem, "Obsessional" records intriguing detective work on Tudor English literary history and assesses the nature of how art is created, by whom, and under what circumstances.

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L'autore

Sandy McIntosh’s collections of poetry include Between Earth and Sky (Marsh Hawk Press), Endless Staircase (Street Press), Earth Works (Long Island University), Which Way to the Egress? (Garfield Publishers), and two chapbooks: Obsessional (Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry) and Monsters of the Antipodes (Survivors Manual Books). His prose includes Firing Back, with Jodie-Beth Galos (John Wiley & Sons), From A Chinese Kitchen (American Cooking Guild), and The Poets In the Poets-In-The-Schools (Minnesota Center for Social Research, University of Minnesota. His poetry and essays have been published in The New York Times, Newsday, The Nation, the Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere. His original poetry in a film script won the Silver Medal in the Film Festival of the Americas.Rose Graubart Ignatow (1914-1995) was an accomplished 20th century American writer and artist. Her art, which is autobiographical in nature, includes landscapes, portraits, period pieces of high and popular art, folk and outsider art. She studied at Cooper Union and the Art Students League as well as independently with Jack Levine. She exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, New York City and Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York. She had over ten one person shows at Gotham Book Mart, Carlebach Gallery and participated in other exhibitions throughout the United States. A large selection of her work is now part of the Altman Family Collection.

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“As the title suggests, the poet’s quest is familial, but it is also poetic. In a way, the poetic mentors McIntosh invokes (such as Allen Ginsberg and David Ignatow) are like fathers, or at least older brothers, to him. A sort of detective, McIntosh uses whatever tools are available to shed light on his family and poetic pasts.... The innovation of this work is most apparent when McIntosh combines as many methods as possible into one piece.”—Erica Wright, ForeWord The likely, the incongruous; the teasing facticity of the mind; sorrow and exhultation: these are what McIntosh demands of us.- Burt Kimmelman

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• Editore: Marsh Hawk Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0975919741
• ISBN 13: 9780975919743
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 88