BODIES THAT HUM - Softcover

Gylys, Beth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878851128 ISBN 13: 9781878851123

Publisher: Silverfish Review Press, 1999

Synopsis

Poetry. Beth Gylys is a poet that people will remember and BODIES THAT HUM is going to be an auspicious debut collection. Her subject is an ordinary one, love and its discontents, but her music is extraordinary with the toughness of Carolyn Kizer and Dorothy Parker mixed into a loneliness that feels -- it sounds very different! -- like Emily Dickinson. Hers is an improvisatory, jazzy art that takes villanelles and sestinas back to the public urgency -- Dave Smith. BODIES THAT HUM is the winner of the 1997 Gerald Cable Book Award.

About this title

About the Author

Beth Gylys is an assistant professor at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her chapbook, Balloon Heart, was published by Wind Press in 1997. In addition to teaching, she has worked as a freelance writer and editor, telemarketer, and a groom at a thoroughbred race track. Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Ploughshares, New Republic, The Boston Review, Columbia Magazine, The Paris Review, and the 1996 Anthology of Best Magazine Verse.

She is also the author of "Balloon Heart".

Review

"Beth Gylys is a wonder. Forget your assumptions --good or ill--about the so-called New Formalism; Bodies that Hum is something new and unforeseen. Gylys shows us that the elegant restrictions of the villanell are, to the right sensibility, uncannily suited to address " the truth of sex," its unreliable revelations. Her formal ingenuity, her terse vision, her humor and radiant candor all make this a remarkable, thoroughly engaging book." -- Tom Andrews

The Adjunct
Afterwards
Balloon Heart
Briefly
Desire
Do Not Dive Head-first
Dynamics
Easy Life
The Erratic Gardener
Fall
Family Reunion - Aunt Vern's Two Cents
Fat Chance
Fervor
Ghosts And Aspirations
Hard Luck
How I Was
Knots
The Lie
Long Distance
Marriage Song
My Father's Nightmare
My Savior In The Form Of A Bus
No Simple Wish
Not An Affair, A Sestina
The One I Love
Personal
Photographer
The Plodder
Preference
Pursuit Of Happiness
Some Nights
Song Of An X
The Spectator
Split
Stuffed
Success
Three Poems
Through The Glass
The Trouble With Love Poems About Men
Why I Like To Lie Awhile Longer
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Silverfish Review Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1878851128
• ISBN 13: 9781878851123
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 71