The Tulip-Flame (New Poetry) - Softcover

Honum, Chloe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986025755 ISBN 13: 9780986025754

Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014

Synopsis

Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award 
Winner of the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year AwardWinner of a Texas Institute of Letters Award Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden. Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. --Claudia Emerson

About this title

About the Author

Chloe Honum is the author of The Tulip-Flame, which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and winner of Foreword Review's Book of the Year Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and the Best First Book of Poetry Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Honum's poems have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review. She was born in Santa Monica, California, and was raised in Auckland, New Zealand.

Review

Finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award 
Winner of Foreword Review's INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award
Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry
Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Best First Book of Poetry Award  "The book promises the values Elizabeth Bishop exalted in poetry: accuracy, spontaneity, and mystery...The Tulip-Flame represents an exciting moment for contemporary poetry."
Los Angeles Review of Books

"No phrase is wasted, no emotion unexplored."
The Weekly Standard

"Striking and subtle...An honest, gently wrenching elegy for the lost."
Blurbed

"A deeply moving and powerful first book."Front Porch Journal
"A mother's suicide and a daughter's struggle to articulate its effects permeate this slender collection of spare, exquisitely crafted poems." Poet Lore

"It is exciting, and a privilege, to read something so 'true' and so likely to nest in the mind forever."
The Cossack Review


"Chloe Honum was a ballet dancer and this is important toknow, for dance depends upon music, and control - and so does poetry...Honum has technique in her bones."   Washington Independent Review of Books

"A master of form, [Honum] places her words so fluidly, her images and ideas seemingly mainline into consciousness--instant realization."Foreword Review
"I can't stop thinking about this collection's skill, its taut lines that are at once muscular and delicate."
American Microreviews and Interviews


"There is something beyond haunting in the soft tone of The Tulip-Flame that is utterly graceful, mimicking a ballet."Hot Metal Bridge

"This is a book to be read in one sitting, so that you can be held in Honum's delicate and gripping spell of language."
Memorious

"The elegance and rigor of the language is so exacting that I hesitate, almost, to say that it seems a language perfectly suited to a classical dancer." West Branch 
"I loved these poems. Not just appreciated, admired, and was inspired by them, but loved."
The Missouri Review

"[Honum's] emotional register is as powerful and lithe as a leaping dancer." Huffington Post 
"If ever there was a debut collection of poems that showed an economy of language and a facility with poetic diction, it is this astounding collection."Galatea Resurrects

Edition details

• Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0986025755
• ISBN 13: 9780986025754
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72