Herself Defined : H. D. and Her WorldGuest, Barbara
9780393051148
Swan Electric
April Bernard
ISBN 10: 0393051145 / 0-393-05114-5
ISBN 13: 9780393051148
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780393051148
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
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The poet confronts the specters that haunt her imagination--a crow, Jimmy Stewart, William Blake, a menacing swan. In this stunning collection, Bernard's ever-idiosyncratic vision combines sternness, sorrow, and flights of fancy, in her struggle to find moral footing as poet and human being.
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"April Bernard is...less concerned with what is said than in how it is said. Wit and lightness of touch are her virtues....The pleasures of her poems lie in details, surprising images, and turns of phrase, each of which has been carefully wrought."
Charles Simic, New York Review of Books, 09/26/2002
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Book Description: W W Norton & Co Inc., Scranton, Pennsylvania, 2002. Hardcover. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. In these searching, musical poems, April Bernard explores a range of emotionally complex subjects and forms in a voice at once sardonic, playful, and passionate. Her "disheveled sonnets" are experiments of self-interrogation while a memoir-sequence ruefully eulogizes being young, bohemian, and in love in New York’s East Village in the 1980s. Then Bernard moves to darker poems of solitude and silence, ending with a funny yet frightening sequence of hallucinations in which she confronts the specters that haunt her imagination—a crow, Jimmy Stewart, William Blake, a menacing swan. In this collection, Bernard’s idiosyncratic vision combines sternness, sorrow, and flights of fancy in her struggle to find moral footing as a poet and human being. "This stylish book is skeptical of mere style: ‘no gorgeous diction can get you out of it.’ Bernard has written a gorgeous, tough, haunting book." —Frank Bidart BRAND NEW BOOK.NO MARKS. Bookseller Inventory # G1514 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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