Afterworld
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1993
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-28408-8 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-28408-8 (ISBN)
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A collection of poems that examine the strengths and frailties of the human psyche as it functions under the stress of loss, disappointment and mortality.
Lyrical and highly charged, these poems examine the strengths and frailties of the human psyche as it functions under the stress of loss, disappointment and mortality. As the poet struggles with reality's continuing failure to satisfy basic human needs, she develops a deepened reliance on the imagination as a source of restorative powers. "I like Christine Garren's poetry for its fervor and idiosyncrasy. It lives in the common places of daily life but opens into mysterious invisible orders. Afterworld is a strange and compelling book by a gifted visionary artist."--W. S. Di Piero "In Afterworld, Christine Garren calls up again and again how it feels to be touched by some relatively familiar thing that happens. A cluster of balloons rises from a birthday party, night falls, and it is left for her to sing about the separate moments with remarkable and unforced grace. Her poems confirm that there's as much at stake in evanescences as we've always suspected but not found ways to say."--James McMichael "The language seems but a shade, a muted rendering of Garren's images, so concrete and ethereal, knowing and innocent.
If this reviewer is being abstract it's because these poems do that to you--they create an arrangement of words, so that, for a while, I believed there was none other."--Harvard Review
Lyrical and highly charged, these poems examine the strengths and frailties of the human psyche as it functions under the stress of loss, disappointment and mortality. As the poet struggles with reality's continuing failure to satisfy basic human needs, she develops a deepened reliance on the imagination as a source of restorative powers. "I like Christine Garren's poetry for its fervor and idiosyncrasy. It lives in the common places of daily life but opens into mysterious invisible orders. Afterworld is a strange and compelling book by a gifted visionary artist."--W. S. Di Piero "In Afterworld, Christine Garren calls up again and again how it feels to be touched by some relatively familiar thing that happens. A cluster of balloons rises from a birthday party, night falls, and it is left for her to sing about the separate moments with remarkable and unforced grace. Her poems confirm that there's as much at stake in evanescences as we've always suspected but not found ways to say."--James McMichael "The language seems but a shade, a muted rendering of Garren's images, so concrete and ethereal, knowing and innocent.
If this reviewer is being abstract it's because these poems do that to you--they create an arrangement of words, so that, for a while, I believed there was none other."--Harvard Review
Christine Garren received her B.A. and M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her first book of poems, Afterworld, also in the Phoenix Poets series, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.6.1993 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Phoenix Poets |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 1 x 1 mm |
| Gewicht | 255 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-28408-5 / 0226284085 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-28408-8 / 9780226284088 |
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