Rough Cradle
Autor Betsy Shollen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2009
Betsy Sholl’s masterful, musical seventh collection focuses on human dichotomies: body and soul, mystery and knowledge, grief and ecstasy. Though the self is small in relation to death, love is enormous, and no life too small or mean to matter.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781882295739
ISBN-10: 1882295730
Pagini: 74
Dimensiuni: 141 x 216 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: ALICE JAMES BOOKS
Colecția Alice James Books
ISBN-10: 1882295730
Pagini: 74
Dimensiuni: 141 x 216 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: ALICE JAMES BOOKS
Colecția Alice James Books
Recenzii
“Betsy Sholl’s Rough Cradle is a marvelous, intricate book of contraries. Ruin and healing, beauty and blight, the just and the unjust are at war, not just out there in our politics and our histories, but in here, daily, hourly, in the human soul. I love Sholl’s unyielding honesty, the great heart and deep intelligence of her vision.”—Nancy Eimers
Sholl's masterful, musical seventh collection focuses on human dichotomies: body and soul, mystery and knowledge, grief and ecstasy. Though the self is small in relation to death, love is enormous, and no life too small or mean to matter. Rough Cradle entreats us to love everything before we lose everything. “Betsy Scholl’s poems are visual and fast moving, the whole book shot through vivid imagery…I was so dazzled by the gorgeousness of the writing…”Stride
“As she upends perspectives, her powers of synthesis, making God's-eyes of unlike threads, are near deific.” Portland Pheonix
“Maine laureate Betsy Sholl is out with a seventh book of poetry that's filled with soaring word pictures…the ideas of beauty versus darkness, grit versus comfort.”?Portland Press Herald
"Betsy Sholl's work has such fiery momentum and narrative drive that her poems seize her readers' attention and never let go, drawing us into a profound contemplation of the marriage of blessing and destruction the world offers again and again."—Mark Doty
"For Betsy Sholl, words don't merely bring us to the edge of life's mysteries, they enter those places and—if not 'solve' things—listen, lament, praise, become song. Everything can turn into poetry, if one can only find the right words, the right music. Over and over, Sholl does. Urgent, compassionate, and lyrical, this is poetry of the highest order."—Theodore Deppe
Sholl's masterful, musical seventh collection focuses on human dichotomies: body and soul, mystery and knowledge, grief and ecstasy. Though the self is small in relation to death, love is enormous, and no life too small or mean to matter. Rough Cradle entreats us to love everything before we lose everything. “Betsy Scholl’s poems are visual and fast moving, the whole book shot through vivid imagery…I was so dazzled by the gorgeousness of the writing…”Stride
“As she upends perspectives, her powers of synthesis, making God's-eyes of unlike threads, are near deific.” Portland Pheonix
“Maine laureate Betsy Sholl is out with a seventh book of poetry that's filled with soaring word pictures…the ideas of beauty versus darkness, grit versus comfort.”?Portland Press Herald
"Betsy Sholl's work has such fiery momentum and narrative drive that her poems seize her readers' attention and never let go, drawing us into a profound contemplation of the marriage of blessing and destruction the world offers again and again."—Mark Doty
"For Betsy Sholl, words don't merely bring us to the edge of life's mysteries, they enter those places and—if not 'solve' things—listen, lament, praise, become song. Everything can turn into poetry, if one can only find the right words, the right music. Over and over, Sholl does. Urgent, compassionate, and lyrical, this is poetry of the highest order."—Theodore Deppe
Notă biografică
Poet, critic, and founding member of Alice James Books, Betsy Sholl is the author of six previous collections of poetry. Recipient of the AWP Prize for Poetry as well as a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is the current Poet Laureate of Maine and teaches at the University of Southern Maine and in the Vermont College MFA program.
Extras
From “Edge of Town”:
I would have
taken the whole wild western coast, wave-strewn
layers of sediment pressed down and heaved up,
left as rubble, then smoothed by the sea’s
agitated prancing in its rocky stall.
It was that rough shore I wanted. And more.
Its long view back to something older than age.
Those two huge upright stones with a stone slab
capping them left to mark the dead
as if death itself were an old implacable god,
an ancient relentless one to stand before
dumbstruck.
I would have
taken the whole wild western coast, wave-strewn
layers of sediment pressed down and heaved up,
left as rubble, then smoothed by the sea’s
agitated prancing in its rocky stall.
It was that rough shore I wanted. And more.
Its long view back to something older than age.
Those two huge upright stones with a stone slab
capping them left to mark the dead
as if death itself were an old implacable god,
an ancient relentless one to stand before
dumbstruck.
Descriere
This acclaimed poet's seventh collection entreats us to love everything before we lose everything.