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Ghost Variations: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Glaser, Elton

 
9780822967194: Ghost Variations: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822967197 ISBN 13: 9780822967194
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023

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Intensely Emotional and Bitingly Witty Poems about Grief, Family, and Joy 

Elton Glaser’s ninth book of poems is haunted by the loss of his wife, each April bringing back the memory of her death. The opening line confesses the struggle to find a language for this grief: “I’m learning to speak in the accents of adieu.” As the book progresses through the seasons, it evokes the places that remind him of their times together, in the South of their youths, in the Midwest of their long marriage, and in their travels here and abroad. And yet there is also another strain that keeps breaking through, the particulars of joy in family and the natural world, grandsons and “swaggering lilies,” and a swan like “a sullen bride in her white finery.” With an irrepressible wit and a music that enlivens his lines in both celebration and elegy, Glaser never forgets that, as Wallace Stevens said, “Memory without passion would be better lost.” 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elton Glaser is distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of Akron, where he also directed the University of Akron Press and edited the Akron Series in Poetry. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently The Law of Falling Bodies and Translations from the Flesh. With William Greenway, he coedited I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio. Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Crab Orchard Poetry Award, and the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize. 

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EXCERPT FROM “WOUNDED ELOCUTION” 

 

I’m learning to speak in the accents of adieu,? 

A language I once thought foreign,? 

Like the aftercry of animals in the predatory dark.? 

? 

The new tones slide from deep in the windpipe,? 

In the lowest notes of woe— 

And all wrong, wrong to my resentful ears.? 

? 

I can’t keep listening to that desolate silence??? 

Between the dry syllables,? 

The way it aches at the root of every word.?. . . 

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Verlag
University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822967197
ISBN 13 
9780822967194
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Anzahl der Seiten
88
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