Otherwise Elsewhere: Poems - Softcover

Rivard, David

 
9781555975739: Otherwise Elsewhere: Poems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1555975739 ISBN 13: 9781555975739
Verlag: Graywolf Press,U.S., 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The expansive, energetic new poetry book by David Rivard, author of Sugartown and Wise Poison

You pay as you go. Mornings
at this point are either like spread sails or (more likely)
spread-sheets—they fill fast. Mornings are fortunes,
but as suspect as a wristwatch running in reverse.
—from “Vigorish”
David Rivard’s new collection Otherwise Elsewhere describes the many powers—psychological and historical—that flow through people’s lives in acts of faith, greed, pleasure, celebrity, gossip, and consolation. A teenage boy looking at a weathered gravestone wonders how many times he’ll sign his name in his life; the forest on the move in Macbeth intersects with a blind man cured by Christ; a man coming out of a terrible dream of being lost is saved by touching his wife’s hair. “For those of us who need it,” one poem asserts, “instruction is everywhere.”

Rivard’s poetry is full of unsettling humor and the careening movement of memory and imagination.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Rivard is the author of four previous books of poetry, including Sugartown and Wise Poison, which won the James Laughlin Award. He teaches at the University of New Hampshire and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


David Rivard is the author of four previous books of poetry, including Sugartown and Wise Poison, which won the James Laughlin Award. He teaches at the University of New Hampshire and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Verlag
Graywolf Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1555975739
ISBN 13 
9781555975739
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
88
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