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Enid Shomer won the Iowa Fiction Prize for her first collection of stories and the Florida Gold Medal for her second. She is also the author of four books of poetry. Her work has appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic", "The Paris Review", and many other publications. She lives in Tampa, Florida.
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Shomer, author of This Close to the Earth (1992), is both soothingly melodic and powerfully syncopated. This bred-in-the-line push-and-pull is also echoed in her metaphors and subject matter as she adroitly mixes and matches the sacred and the profane, the classical and the casual. Her strongest poems, as with most poets, are her most personal; in this case, elegies and rants (to improvise on one of her titles) for her tough grandfather, horse track habituefather, sister lost to cancer, and aphasic mother. Shomer meets grief like an old dance partner, finding just the right beat and sway to bring even the saddest of songs to a buoyant conclusion. Elsewhere, she fluently interprets the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Balthus, venting a half-angry sensuality, then writes of fish and birds, sea, sky, and land with an ever-humanizing eye. Donna Seaman
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- PublisherUniversity of Arkansas Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1557284970
- ISBN 13 9781557284976
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages88
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In Black Drum, Enid Shomer fuses mind with body, knowledge with physical being, and affirms the capacity of language to accomplish this fusion. With clearly fashioned images, her focus often narrows on close particulars or leaps to wide angles, as in these lines from the title poem in which the narrator is battling a fish:We had been struggling for ten minutesa lifetimeover whose world would prevail: his, with its purled edges and continuous center, or mine with its yin and yang, its surface incised into sky and sea, the land like a scar between.The characters in Shomers poems discover the ceaseless motion of living in the body and the inevitability of decay. In Notes from the Sketch book of Gustav Klimt, Shomer boldly says, I have always balked / at the purely decorative, / but then I saw that the symbolic / could stir us by its absence.Black Drum insists that life on earth speaks of transformation and transience; epiphany can happen any where, with schemes illegal and grand with slot machines, race horses, dead or estranged relatives, and lost love. Enid Shomer signals us to make the most of life, despite our limitations and in the face of bewildering catastrophe. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781557284976
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In Black Drum, Enid Shomer fuses mind with body, knowledge with physical being, and affirms the capacity of language to accomplish this fusion. With clearly fashioned images, her focus often narrows on close particulars or leaps to wide angles, as in these lines from the title poem in which the narrator is battling a fish:We had been struggling for ten minutesa lifetimeover whose world would prevail: his, with its purled edges and continuous center, or mine with its yin and yang, its surface incised into sky and sea, the land like a scar between.The characters in Shomers poems discover the ceaseless motion of living in the body and the inevitability of decay. In Notes from the Sketch book of Gustav Klimt, Shomer boldly says, I have always balked / at the purely decorative, / but then I saw that the symbolic / could stir us by its absence.Black Drum insists that life on earth speaks of transformation and transience; epiphany can happen any where, with schemes illegal and grand with slot machines, race horses, dead or estranged relatives, and lost love. Enid Shomer signals us to make the most of life, despite our limitations and in the face of bewildering catastrophe. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781557284976
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