Any Keep or Contour (Paperback)

Audrey Bohanan

ISBN 10: 190413095X / ISBN 13: 9781904130956

Editore: The Waywiser Press, Chipping Norton, 2019

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Paperback. Audrey Bohanans poems track the human endeavor to create order out of the cluttering rummage of the psyche. As they grapple to keep their hold on the world apparent in observable, naturally occurring phenomena, they sometimes turn to the quieter successes of other species out from under the wiles of civil government, sometimes to the speechless and acute innocence of childhood, always insistent on an inevitable reason for hope. Even as the wilder, curative landscape vanishes, they light out for what is left of it with a sense of an incessant being alive, where nothing but limitlessness sets its own limitations. If Seamus Heaney and Dylan Thomas randomly collided in the quantum universe and miraculously produced a brilliant daughter, she would be Audrey Bohanan. In Any Keep or Contour, landscape and life alchemy are her trade, and language is her medium like no one else I have read. Rustin Larson Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Any Keep or Contour (Paperback)
• Editore: The Waywiser Press, Chipping Norton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 190413095X
• ISBN 13: 9781904130956
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Poetry. Audrey's first collection, Lime, won the 2002 Gerald Cable Book Award. ANY KEEP OR CONTOUR was a runner-up for the thirteenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, run by Waywiser. What Mark Doty, reviewing Lime, said about her work applies just as well to ANY KEEP OR CONTOUR: "Close attention to the world, in these skilled hands, becomes a study of time and mortality, sorrow and limit, joy and the possibility of hope. These poems sound like no one else, alive with a tensile strength and exacting, idiosyncratic perception. They speak to a lived, open-eyed engagement with a long-loved place."

"Audrey Bohanan is a poet of extraordinary depth and talent. Her work is technically sophisticated, linguistically innovative, and emotionally stunning. From the opening lines of this collection's first poem, 'Gorge of Eels,' the reader hears a voice almost startling in its singularity: 'There, in the far upstream, in the wilderness / of the autonomous, a mirroring gulf / of who I most likely was had been lapping / alone along its hollowed shore in the likes / of a fish story.' It is soon apparent that the remarkable twists and turns of her syntax are not mere flourish but a means of reaching to the heart of difficult truths and feelings that more prosaic language can never approach. The narrative element of these poems is sometimes immediately apparent, as in the two 'Winter School' poems, and sometimes more elusive, but none of the stories will leave you untouched. These works have a powerful resonance, which you will not soon forget."--Mark Edelstein

Informazioni sull?autore

Audrey Bohanan was born in 1948 in central-southern New Hampshire, where she also spent her childhood, growing up on one of the state's few remaining family farms. Educated at the University of New Hampshire and a graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program, she has taught writing and poetry for The Johns Hopkins University and Champlain College for many years, and also teaches privately and runs workshops in her local area. In addition to her career in poetry, she earlier served an apprenticeship in the printing industry and journeyed in a shop transitioning from hot-metal typography to digital print. She is married to the furniture-maker and musician Jeff Lind. Having moved to coastal Maine in the mid-1970s, they live and work off-the- grid on a piece of backland devoted to tree growth and wildlife habitat.