On the Desire to Levitate: Poems: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Autor Alison Powellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2014
On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adolescent girls as mythical adventurers moving within a beloved but confining Midwest. Yet in Powell’s skillful hands, hardship never overtakes: as judge Charles Hood writes, “There’s often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity.”
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780821420980
ISBN-10: 0821420984
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
ISBN-10: 0821420984
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
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Recenzii
“By turns tough, talky, triumphant, and tragic, like the Midwest itself, Alison Powell’s On the Desire to Levitate lifts us above the lush landscapes of her vision. Hers is an elegiac imagination that, in its very lyric confidence, manages to affirm that flight is never simple—all while making it look effortless. In love with language, folk song, the raw fields, and eminence, these poems sing while conjuring. Presto!”—Kevin Young, author of The Grey Album, (New York Times Notable Book, 2012)
“The great strengths…of the book, are vividness, striking images, a sense of place, and a forthright approach to the normal ambivalence in families' experience of age and death.” —Eclectica
“I’ve always felt that the true test of a poet lies in his/her love poems—whether to nature, god, art, the beloved, it hardly matters—for therein lies the driving force of human experience: to release oneself from the limits of the self, to cross, as one poem puts it, “that bridge of disbelief / between who someone is and might, someday, be.” The hungers of sexual experience, the imaginary heavens of childhood, the mythic yearnings of Orpheus and Eurydice—this book abounds with examples. I suppose it goes without saying that the lyric gift required to invoke that world is an uncommon thing for any book of poems; for a first book, it is truly rare. Alison Powell’s On the Desire to Levitate marks the beginning of a brilliant career.”—Sherod Santos, author of The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems
“In the second line of the title poem, which opens Alison Powell’s first col- lection, we encounter the word flight, italicized, set off by itself between a colon and a period as if framed for our notice. It is a useful clue, for the twenty-nine poems gathered here exhibit several kinds of flight.”—Scott Russell Sanders, Middle West Review
“This collection celebrates the humanity and surprise of being a child, being an adult, being fully alive in this strange and perplexing and magnificent world. It’s an inclusive story: angels mean something in this book, and are willing to look back at us just as hard as we look at them. Yet it’s never grim—corn grows; language brims; lives rise and glow. There’s often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity.”—Charles Hood, author of South x South, and 2013 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize judge
Notă biografică
Alison Powell received an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University in 2005. Her work has previously appeared in journals including Boston Review, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, Antioch Review, and other journals, as well as in the anthology Best New Poets 2006. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
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On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family.