Passages: Poems - Hardcover

Brosman, Catharine Savage

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807120499 ISBN 13: 9780807120491

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1996

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Book by Brosman, Catharine Savage

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From the Back Cover:

In Passages, Catharine Savage Brosman presents journeys between the world and spirit, journeys that share an axis of yearning for a realm as pure as desire. Brosman refracts through metrical virtuosity, historical imagination, and a vision like cleansing light a world alive with coruscating color and sensual textures. Whether rendering a speaker's spiritual communion with Mozart, the febrile longings of a woman caught in adultery in French Algeria, or a love letter by Madame d'Epinay (deftly couched in the metrics and tropes of eighteenth-century France), Brosman moves effortlessly from the broodingly intimate perspectives of other eyes, other souls, to the most abstract of aesthetic meditations. These are poems of wit and passion, poems that beg to be read and reread, and this remarkable collection reminds us again and again of the passages that open into the lives of our imagination.

About the Author:

Catharine Savage Brosman 's other poetry collections are Journeying from Canyon de Chelly, Abiding Winter, and Watering. She is also the author of The Shimmering Maya and Other Essays and a number of French literary studies. She is Kathryn B. Gore Professor of French at Tulane University in New Orleans.

About this edition

• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0807120499
• ISBN 13: 9780807120491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 60