Subject: Poems (Mint First Edition)

Laura Mullen

ISBN 10: 0520242882 / ISBN 13: 9780520242883

Published by University of California Press, 2005

About this Item

Berkeley: University of California Press (2005). First edition. First printing. Hardbound/cloth. New. A pristine unread copy. This is the hardcover edition, issued without dust jacket, in a very small printing, probably less than 1,000. Part of the NEW CALIFORNIA POETRY SERIES, edited by Robert Hass, Calvin Bedient, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander. Never opened. Smoke-free. Shipped in a well padded box. You cannot find a better copy. 0.0.

Seller Inventory # LW-627

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Subject: Poems (Mint First Edition)
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520242882
• ISBN 13: 9780520242883
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

Calvin Bedient calls the poetry in this volume "solid and brave and relentlessly inventive." Forrest Gander says, "The obsessive force of this poetry, ruptured by caesura and stanza, is remarkable. Despite the considerable intellectual torque, the poems, concerned always with identity, the borders of the I and the Here, are quite funny in passages. The drama of this work is gripping, convulsive, and intense."

Subject holds the mirror up to language, attempting to find out (and find ways out of ) the limits of the wor(l)ds we are sentenced to. The lyric impulse exists, but the surface is rough, reflecting the violence of the effort to see into seeing itself: the voice is ragged, syntax is torn, words have been broken into syllable and sound, images dissolve, the page holds out alternate visions and versions (in double or triple columns), leaving any would-be univocal truth always in doubt.

About the Author

Laura Mullen teaches at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Her first collection of poems, The Surface (1991), was chosen as a National Poetry Series selection; her second collection, After I Was Dead (1999), was selected for the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series. She is also the author of The Tales of Horror (Kelsey Street Press, 1999).