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In Praise of Falling: Pitt Poetry Series

Autor Cheryl Dumesnil
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iul 2009
The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century’s prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822960416
ISBN-10: 0822960419
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 140 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria Pitt Poetry Series


Recenzii

“The focus in Cheryl Dumesnil’s poetry is on contemporary subjects in contemporary language—always with fresh understandings and surprising angles and, like all good poetry, with the ‘best words in the best order.’”
—Ed Ochester

“In poems that ‘keep us alive by recording / all our details right,’ Cheryl Dumesnil passionately and at times irreverently approaches the consequences of desire, knowing that ‘sometimes / looking closer lets us love something / more.’ Confucius and Karen Carpenter may ghost through these poems, but autistic children and the selfless community of women spark ‘the unspoken wondering / if any one of us is safe.’ The poems remain celebratory, though, because their eloquent yet unassuming gestures 'raise us / up from the depths, silver, glimmering.’ In Praise of Falling is a debut of extraordinary transparency and generosity.”
—Michael Waters

“A beautiful, linguistic celebration of the surprises that come from seeming failures.”
—BOMBlog

“Poems that calm and inspire . . . Introspection tempered by humility and gratitude, key qualities of Zen, character ‘In Praise of Falling.’ This book is well worth reading for its quiet pleasures.”
—The Potomac

Notă biografică

Cheryl Dumesnil is editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall and coeditor of Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Indiana Review, Many Mountains Moving, and Nimrod International Journal, among other publications. Cheryl teaches writing workshops in the San Francisco Bay area.

Descriere

Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Enacting the Zen proverb “fall down seven times, get up eight,” this collection explores the ways we fall—through disillusionment, disappointment, and plain, old-fashioned mistakes, and the ways we rise up—out of personal debacles, unfortunate circumstances, family legacies, and collective struggles.