House with a Dark Sky Roof (Salt Modern Poets) - Brossura

Cotler, T. Zachary

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ISBN 10: 1844718204 ISBN 13: 9781844718207

Casa editrice: Salt Publishing, 2011

Riassunto

House with a Dark Sky Roof stands nearly dead-center between the traditional and experimental schools of the 20th century. Unlike so much 21st century poetry by younger Americans that might be described this way, this book evidences, on a line by line level, a truly original voice, unbeholden to Ashbery, O'Hara, and the other poets too often emulated by graduates of the American creative writing programs. The poems in House with a Dark Sky Roof are unashamedly intellectual, often complex, yet never ungenerous, never unnecessarily obscure. Though these poems are attached to the land, they are never provincial, travelling from New York to Mexico to London to the Karuk reservation in Northern California to Slovenia to ancient Greece and the outer solar system.

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Recensione:

What strikes me most in Cotler’s poems is their rich and dense verbal music. As Housman and Auden, among others, have pointed out, poetry is not what is said (which is shared with all sorts of other verbal discourses) but a way of saying, and the way of Cotler’s saying is compelling and hypnotic. And yet the music is not detached from the fact; the poems’ love for the weight and heft and tune of their words is matched by their love for the particulars with which they are replete to overflow: Cotler has taken to heart Keats’ admonition to load every rift with ore. (Reginald Shepherd)

L'autore:

T. Zachary Cotler’s poems have appeared in Paris Review, Poetry, The Wolf, and other journals in the US and UK. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Amy Clampitt Residency Award and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Djerassi Foundation. He is a founding editor of The Winter Anthology, www.winteranthology.com. This is his first book of poems.

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• Editore: Salt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844718204
• ISBN 13: 9781844718207
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 80