Items related to Calendars

Finch, Annie Calendars ISBN 13: 9781932195002

Calendars - Softcover

 
9781932195002: Calendars
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Annie Finch's wide reputation precedes her. Her first full book of poems attracted the notice and glowing approval of Robert Pinsky, Carolyn Kizer, the Bloomsbury Review and the Washington Times. Her poems are resonating, musical celebrations of life. Through mastery of rhythm and poetic patterning, this wonderfully gifted poet liberates and illuminates the sacred in the mundane, and gives voice to the earth-centered spirituality of our era.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:
Annie Finch is a poet, translator, and librettist, ""a central figure in contemporary American poetics"" (The Dictionary of Literary Biography). Her recent works include a book of poetry, Eve (Story Line, 1997); the groundbreaking anthology, An Exaltation of Forms (Michigan, 2002); a translation of The Complete Poetry and Prose of Louise Labé (University of Chicago Press, 2006); and a libretto for a new opera based on the life of poet Marina Tsvetaeva (American Opera Productions, 2003)). She is Director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine.
Review:
In her third full-length collection, Finch focuses on the cyclical and seasonal, centering on themes of birth, death, family and artistic lineage, sexuality and female spirituality. Following the poems of Eve (1997), the poetics of The Ghost of Meter, and the anthologizing of An Exaltation of Forms (2002) among other books and translation work, Finch here moves through traditional and invented forms, chants and refrains, makes addresses to poets of the past, and at times deploys an exaggerated musicality that is less archaic than rooted in obsessive repetition. In ""Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle,"" for instance, the speaker sings, ""Move me the way the seas' warm sea will spend me./ Move me the way the seas' warm sea will; spend me./ Move your sea-warm come to me; will with me; spend/ tender sounds, warning me the way of the seas, the seas."" Some of the most compelling poems here explore the interplay of multiple voices; in the title poem, the voices of Demeter, Chorus, Persephone and Hades chant in alternation. Other successful poems move between a voice and an echo--a doubt, a qualification or a redirected train of thought. While poems centered on (and titled after) ""The Earth Goddess and Sky God"" or ""The Menstrual Hut"" can seem more a part of a personal cosmology than a space readers will want to approach, Finch almost always draws one in with an unnerving and utterly unexpected phrase or image, as when addressing ""The Moon"": ""Then you are the dense everywhere that moves,/ the dark matter they haven't yet walked through?"" Such moments seem to contain the full duration of this book's calendars.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Publishers Weekly

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherTupelo Press
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 1932195009
  • ISBN 13 9781932195002
  • BindingPerfect Paperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages70
  • Rating

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781932195040: Calendars

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9781932195040
Publisher: Tupelo Press, 2003
Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Finch, Annie
Published by Tupelo Press, Dorset, Vt. (2003)
ISBN 10: 1932195009 ISBN 13: 9781932195002
New Soft cover First Edition Signed Quantity: 1
Seller:
Nilbog Books
(Portland, ME, U.S.A.)

Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing). Bound in soft cover with fold-over fllaps. This copy is signed by th author and Dated April 2006 on the title page. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 053759

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 8.50
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.50
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Finch, Annie
Published by Tupelo Press (2003)
ISBN 10: 1932195009 ISBN 13: 9781932195002
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GF Books, Inc.
(Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. Seller Inventory # 1932195009-2-1

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 26.10
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Finch, Annie
Published by Tupelo Press (2003)
ISBN 10: 1932195009 ISBN 13: 9781932195002
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Book Deals
(Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-1932195009-new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 26.11
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Finch, Annie
Published by Tupelo Press (2003)
ISBN 10: 1932195009 ISBN 13: 9781932195002
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_1932195009

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 22.21
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Finch, Annie
Published by Tupelo Press (2003)
ISBN 10: 1932195009 ISBN 13: 9781932195002
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard1932195009

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 24.67
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.50
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Finch, Annie
Published by Tupelo Press (2003)
ISBN 10: 1932195009 ISBN 13: 9781932195002
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think1932195009

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 25.72
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Finch, Annie
Published by Brand: Tupelo Press (2003)
ISBN 10: 1932195009 ISBN 13: 9781932195002
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover1932195009

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 29.47
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.30
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Annie Finch
Published by Tupelo Pr (2003)
ISBN 10: 1932195009 ISBN 13: 9781932195002
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Revaluation Books
(Exeter, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 70 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 1932195009

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 34.22
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 12.73
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Finch, Annie
Published by Tupelo Press (2003)
ISBN 10: 1932195009 ISBN 13: 9781932195002
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
BennettBooksLtd
(LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.45. Seller Inventory # Q-1932195009

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 64.10
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.13
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds