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Carol Frost's poems have a classical grace and elegance, but there is molten emotion beneath their fluid surfaces. The poetic sequences in Entwined give a reader three perspectives on human awareness: as a lexicon of abstractions (Time, Beauty, Adultery, Scorn, and so on) and what the poet calls "moral dreaming"; as a voyage from the soul's dark night into a new experience of light among the bays and shoals of Florida's fecund gulf coast; and as a meditation on memory and mortality, through an encounter with a mind in decline -- a parent succumbing to dementia.
Written over twenty-five years in three series, Carol Frost's twelfth book of poems is formally elegant but fierce in feeling, boldly exploring lineation, an elastic syntax, and inventive punctuation to reach an extraordinary sensory intensity.
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Carol Frost was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts, and as a child spent a year in her mother's hometown of Vienna, so German was the first language she spoke. She studied at the Sorbonne and earned degrees from the SUNY-Oneonta and Syracuse University. The author of eleven previous books of poetry, most recently The Queen's Desertion and Honeycomb (both Northwestern University Press, 2006 and 2010). She holds an endowed chair of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
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"With her characteristic passionate impersonality, Carol Frost has written, over the years, this great book. A wonder-worker with words, she creates in each poem the most persuasive immersion in a tangible reality and at the same time she articulates in the most surprising ways some of the ultimate ideas and questions of existence. Her language itself seems palpable, and her thinking about human life, her acknowledgment of what we are all really like, is fearless. 'No more pretty songs,' she writes in one poem. No. Instead, beautiful ones that teach and compel and exhilarate the reader's imagination and spirit. We should carry this book everywhere with us." -- Reginald Gibbons --Advance Praise
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- PublisherTupelo Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1936797496
- ISBN 13 9781936797493
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages124
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