Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Frost, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810150999 ISBN 13: 9780810150997

Publisher: TriQuarterly, 2000

Synopsis

Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems combines twenty new poems by Carol Frost with a substantial selection of work from her previous seven books. In forms ranging from the sonnet to the lyric to the narrative, Frost's poems are fiery, passionate meditations on experience and consciousness.

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About the Author:

Carol Frost is the author of Pure and Venus and Don Juan, both published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwetsern University Press. She is a two-time recipient of an NEA fellowship. Her poems have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly. Frost lives inthe Otsdawa River Valley in New York State.

From Publishers Weekly:

Saturated in "viscera, anatomy," in chthonic desires, mythic parallels and "overwhelming regret," Frost's (Venus and Don Juan; Pure) headlong free verse displays an admirable energy, but not much formal or intellective control in this selection from seven previous books, and in two groups of new short poems. Seeking rawness and power, Frost turns to readily available storiesAGenesis, The TempestAand to other American poets who've shared her ambitions: sometimes she fails to build on her borrowed foundations; often, she fails to escape melodrama: "I've grieved and walked in catacombs," one speaker declares, "I've made myself ill with the power and the glory." (In another poem, "Burdock" explains "I'm here... to tell you there is satisfaction, even when I die.") Elsewhere, in the manner of the later Robert Penn Warren, Frost deploys fortissimo religious symbolism: figures meant for immediate shock or sublimity ("young murderers on last night's news/ went like angry angels... as if to mock the eternal Coming"), words like "extraordinary," "unsayable" and "death and joy." A long sequence of 11-line poems with abstract titles returns to categorical basics such as "Harm," "Apology," "Envy," "Sex," "Imagination" and "The Tree of Knowledge, your favorite scene": their loping, extended, abstract and unrhymed phrases will appeal to fans of C.K. Williams. If few whole poems satisfy their formal demands, many include striking bits and pieces: it will be hard to forget the key moment in "Sin," for instance, when "The blue and scarlet sky/ was gently losing its color,// as if from use." (Mar.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: TriQuarterly
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0810150999
• ISBN 13: 9780810150997
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 130