The Muscled Truce: Poems - Hardcover

Brosman, Catharine Savage

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ISBN 10: 0807128899 ISBN 13: 9780807128893

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2003

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In this book of poems, Catharine Savage Brosman employs a wide array of forms and styles to address the problem of being and the complexity of relationships.

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About the Author

Catharine Savage Brosman 's creative works include four previous poetry volumes, most recently Places in Mind,and two books of essays. A native of Colorado and longtime resident of New Orleans, she is a professor emerita of French at Tulane University.

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Brosman's new collection of exceptionally well crafted formal verse contains dramatic monologues, genre portraits, and personal reflections. The monologues' speakers span the ages from ancient Crete, where King Minos surveys his career, remarking first that "awful nuisance" the Minotaur, in whom he apprehends catastrophe for his realm, to present-day New Mexico, where Brosman herself is "strangely moved, / given I do not like him much," by the D. H. Lawrence Memorial. The genre portraits--to steal a term from painting that indicates common rather than noble subjects--present, in quatrains, pursuers of avocations, including "The Beekeeper," "The Golfer," and "The Pianist," as each pits physical effort against the natural world to reach the accommodation Brosman calls "The Muscled Truce." The reflective poems, based on events experienced traveling abroad and at home, altogether pose the conception of life as "A Cosmic Comedy," a drama that, though painful and peculiar, ends happily. This is a Christian attitude, and Brosman is surely one of the best contemporary poets writing in English from a Christian perspective. Ray Olson
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