Text(Isles) (Signed First Edition)

KASSELL, Nancy

ISBN 10: 1939929059 / ISBN 13: 9781939929051

Editore: Dos Madres Press Inc, Loveland, OH, 2013

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First edition. Softcover. 72 pages. A paperback original collection of poems. A near fine copy in wrappers. Signed and warmly inscribed by Kassell to poet Marie Ponsot on the title page. A very nice association copy.

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• Titolo: Text(Isles) (Signed First Edition)
• Editore: Dos Madres Press Inc, Loveland, OH
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1939929059
• ISBN 13: 9781939929051
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Firmato: Autografato dall'autore
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Poetry

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Poetry. "Nancy Kassell's new (and first) collection TEXT(ISLES) is mature, humane, truly learned. The poems, unique, accurate, beautiful, are a model of emotional intelligence. Their context is as multidimensional as life and history itself. They evoke the classical world—Horace, Ovid, Aeneas, myth revisited; they introduce a woman-friendly world especially in their focus on the significance and language of cloth, of sewing, of pattern and texture; they 'translate' music (Brahms, Bach), painting (Klee, Soutine), art history; they explore sky, earth, water, cellular life; they evoke the centrality of love. Like the title, the poems fragment and reconcile the worlds they create. Myth and metaphor and 'reality' are interchangeable—and fresh. 'It is no news,/ that we have to reinvent ourselves/ again and again./ Unless we've already given up,/ the light over the drawing board/ is always on.' There is reassurance in the scope and beauty of TEXT(ISLES), hope in its minutest details."—Sondra Zeidenstein