Under the Pergola: Poems - Softcover

Brosman, Catharine Savage

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807138800 ISBN 13: 9780807138809

Publisher: LSU Press, 2011

Synopsis

Always spirited and elegant, by turns witty and meditative, Catharine Savage Brosman's Under the Pergola contemplates Louisiana, past and present, before traveling a broader path that crosses Colorado landscapes and the island of Sicily.
In her eighth collection of poems, Brosman evokes the Pelican State's trees, birds, rivers, swamps, bayous, New Orleans scenes, historic houses, and colorful characters. She also recounts, in free verse, formal verse, and one prose poem, the "misdeeds of Katrina" as she and others experienced them.
Other poems range widely, from reflections on writers Samuel Johnson, Paul Claudel, André Malraux, and James Dickey to quiet meditations on the American West, Odysseus, fruits and vegetables, and the recent "light years" of the poet's life -- which she characterizes as "silken... slipping smoothly off" like a gown.

About this title

About the Author

Catharine Savage Brosman, who now lives in Houston, is professor emerita of French at Tulane University. She is the author of numerous books of French literary history and criticism, two volumes of nonfiction prose, and seven collections of poetry, including most recently Range of Light and Breakwater.

Edition details

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807138800
• ISBN 13: 9780807138809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88