Red Trousseau: Poems: Poets, Penguin
Autor Carol Muskeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1993
RedTrousseau is the latest work from one of America’s greatest modern poets. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Carol Muske has discovered a way to work magic within the boundaries of technical achievement … Her contemplation of experience is personal yet moves further, into the spiritual and philosophical; then it be longs not only to the poet but to all of us. The poems in Red Trousseau use Los Angeles as a symbol for the seduction of appearances; reality crosses from the Wallace Stevens notion of the sun in "Red Trousseau," “hovering in its guise of impatient tribunal,” to the sun in "Unsent letter.” in which a director reshoots a tarnished sunset so that "the scene, infinite, rebegins” In Muskes poems primary colors dominate, most notably red—the red of Salem burnings, the self-immolation of a political dissident in Prague, and Eros it self, moving like a red shadow over the body of love Stylistically brilliant and emotionally resonant, the poems in Red Trousseau display the work of a master poet at the peak of her craft.
"With Red Trousseau, Carol Muske achieves the insight, emotional accuracy, and terrifying sureness of moral discernment she has always sought. She surveys human relations with an acid clairvoyance through which the reckless currents of personal and cultural history course, ripping away all but the essential tones of the human conversation with its humanity: terror, sometimes courage, excessive need, and the stubborn twin habits of hope and representation. This is urgent and beautifully confident work.’ —Jorie Graham
"With Red Trousseau, Carol Muske achieves the insight, emotional accuracy, and terrifying sureness of moral discernment she has always sought. She surveys human relations with an acid clairvoyance through which the reckless currents of personal and cultural history course, ripping away all but the essential tones of the human conversation with its humanity: terror, sometimes courage, excessive need, and the stubborn twin habits of hope and representation. This is urgent and beautifully confident work.’ —Jorie Graham
Preț: 117.32 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 176
Preț estimativ în valută:
22.45€ • 23.35$ • 18.82£
22.45€ • 23.35$ • 18.82£
Carte tipărită la comandă
Livrare economică 13-27 martie
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140586862
ISBN-10: 0140586865
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 141 x 213 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Seria Poets, Penguin
ISBN-10: 0140586865
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 141 x 213 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Seria Poets, Penguin
Cuprins
Red Trousseau I
To the Muse, New Year's Eve, 1990
Stage &Screen, 1989
Field Trip
In-Flight Flick
Theories of Education
Frog Pond
Little L.A. Villanelle
II
Red Trousseau
Alchemy, She Said
My Sister Not Painting, 1990
Kenya
Insomnia
Lucifer
Prague: Two Journals
M. Butterfly
Character
III
Unsent Letter
Unsent Letter 2
Unsent Letter 3 (Retro Vivo)
Unsent Letter 4: Last Take
Barra de Navidad: Envoi
About the Author
To the Muse, New Year's Eve, 1990
Stage &Screen, 1989
Field Trip
In-Flight Flick
Theories of Education
Frog Pond
Little L.A. Villanelle
II
Red Trousseau
Alchemy, She Said
My Sister Not Painting, 1990
Kenya
Insomnia
Lucifer
Prague: Two Journals
M. Butterfly
Character
III
Unsent Letter
Unsent Letter 2
Unsent Letter 3 (Retro Vivo)
Unsent Letter 4: Last Take
Barra de Navidad: Envoi
About the Author
Notă biografică
Carol Muske is the author of five collections of poetry and two novels, Dear Digby and Saving St. Germ. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her poetry, including Guggenheim, NEA, and Ingram-Merrill fellowships. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Carol Muske has been called one of the best poets of her generation. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Carolyn Kizer, commented that her technical dazzle and virtuosity are "one of a kind: Mozartian". The poems in her new collection, Red Trousseau, use Los Angeles as a symbol for the seduction of appearances; in the title poem, reality crosses from the Wallace Stevens notion of the sun "hovering in its guise of impatient tribunal" to a director's reshooting of a tarnished sunset, so that "the scene, infinite, rebegins". In Carol Muske's work, red, blue, and yellow dominate, serving to link such disparate things as a soundstage's fake prie dieu, a precinct station map of gang activity, and a schoolgirl's model of the planets, all of which take on the red of Salem burnings, the self-immolation of a political dissident in Prague, and Eros itself, moving like a red shadow over the body of love. Fate in Red Trousseau is drawn by a biochemist as a chemical, recodable spiral inside us, looping back and forth like a mobius of DNA or a movie reel; like a director or a lover, a rebeginning. Muske's Hollywood, also deriving much of its spiraling energy from another modernist, Marianne Moore, circles around its version of reality, infinitely rebeginning, until it becomes wholly the form. Life is made into an object - beautiful, but no longer life. Until, of course, the writer begins a new story, spiraling around a new apprehension of the world that is dangerous, political, and most of all, erotic. Stylistically brilliant and emotionally resonant, the poems in Red Trousseau display the work of a master poet at the peak of her craft.