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The Seventy Prepositions: Poems (New California Poetry, 10, Band 10) - Softcover

Snow, Carol; Bedient, Calvin; Hass, Robert; Hillman, Brenda

 
9780520240810: The Seventy Prepositions: Poems (New California Poetry, 10, Band 10)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520240812 ISBN 13: 9780520240810
Verlag: University of California Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Carol Snow's award-winning poetry has been admired and celebrated as "work of difficult beauty" (Robert Hass), "ever restless, ever re-framing the frame of reference" (Boston Review), teaching us "how brutally self-transforming a verbal action can be when undertaken in good faith" (Jorie Graham). In this, her third volume, Snow continues to mine the language to its most mysterious depths and to explore the possibilities its meanings and mechanics hold for definition, transformation, and emotional truth. These poems place us before, and in, language--as we stand before, and in, the world.

The Seventy Prepositions comprises three suites of poems. The first, "Vocabulary Sentences," reflects on words and reality by taking as a formal motif the sort of sentences used to test vocabulary skills in elementary school. The poems of the second suite, "Vantage," gather loosely around questions of perspective and perception. The closing suite finds its inspiration in the Japanese dry-landscape gardens known as karesansui, such as the famous rock garden at Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto. Here the poet approaches composition as one faces a "miniature Zen garden," choosing and positioning words rather than stones, formally, precisely, evocatively.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Carol Snow is Codirector of the Blue Bear School of American Music in San Francisco. She is the author of Artist and Model (1990), which received the 1990 Book Award from the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, and For (California, 2000).

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"This is a brilliant, funny, subtle book. One of Carol Snow's subjects is the tenuousness and ferocity of relationship, so it shouldn't have come as a surprise, though it does, that she has made a feast from the subject of prepositions."—Robert Hass

"A poetry—post-traumatic—half-seen, half-remembered, half-named--the event more than half gone—still every half-part is a whole, when space is equal to it. Here is a new and mesmerizing way of thinking about things."—Fanny Howe

"Carol Snow's staggering, ruthless poems hold a heroic quality that feels rare these days. With a string of improbable comrades--Lewis Carroll, Sappho, A.R. Luria, and the Zen gardeners of Ryoanji Temple, Kyoto--she tracks the intricate twists and turns of American language towards uncharted territory. Every fork in thought bristles with danger and decision. A brave book indeed!"—Andrew Schelling

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"This is a brilliant, funny, subtle book. One of Carol Snow's subjects is the tenuousness and ferocity of relationship, so it shouldn't have come as a surprise, though it does, that she has made a feast from the subject of prepositions." Robert Hass

"A poetry post-traumatic half-seen, half-remembered, half-named--the event more than half gone still every half-part is a whole, when space is equal to it. Here is a new and mesmerizing way of thinking about things." Fanny Howe

"Carol Snow's staggering, ruthless poems hold a heroic quality that feels rare these days. With a string of improbable comrades--Lewis Carroll, Sappho, A.R. Luria, and the Zen gardeners of Ryoanji Temple, Kyoto--she tracks the intricate twists and turns of American language towards uncharted territory. Every fork in thought bristles with danger and decision. A brave book indeed!" Andrew Schelling

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520240812
ISBN 13 
9780520240810
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
122
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