Driven to Abstraction
Even in a state of geometrical grace we cannot see time as it is, only as it passes. So the river shows us while softly disfiguring our waterlogged bodies on the way to vast projects of war.-Rosmarie WaldropDriven to Abstraction is Rosmarie Waldrop's sixth collection of poetry with New Directions. The first of its two sections, Sway-Backed Powerlines, consists of five sequences of prose poems whose subject matter ranges from voyages of discovery and the second Iraq war to geometry, memory, and the music of John Cage. Part two, the title sequence, investigates the tendency to abstraction in our lives which, in the West, began with the Renaissa…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1879-5
- EAN: 9780811218795
- Produktnummer: 7303011
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 133 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.2 cm 207 g
- Gewicht: 207
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Rosmarie Waldrop was born in Germany and has lived in the United States since 1958. The author and translator of dozens of books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, she is the co-founder and co- publisher of Burning Deck Press. Waldrop's many honors include being named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, fellowships from the NEA, the Fund for Poetry, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. In 2006 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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