I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time - Brossura

Prevallet, Kristin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0979118913 ISBN 13: 9780979118913

Casa editrice: Essay Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Poetry. Essays. Much admired by her contemporaries for her experiments in poetic form, Kristin Prevallet now turns those gifts to the most vulnerable moments of her own life, and in doing so, has produced a testament that is both disconsolate and powerful. Meditating on her father's unexplained suicide, Prevallet alternates between the clinical language of the crime report and the lyricism of the elegy. Throughout, she offers a defiant refusal of east consolations or redemptions. Driven by "the need to extend beyond the personal and out the toward the intolerable present," Prevallet brings herself and her readers to the chilling but transcendent place where, as she promises, "darkness has its own resolutions." According to Fanny Howe, here elegy and essay "converge and there is left a beautiful sense of the poetic itself as all that is left to comfort a person facing a catastrophic loss." "This is the quietest and most intimate book by one of our best poets"--Forest Gander.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Essay Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0979118913
• ISBN 13: 9780979118913
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 63
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile