Mount Clutter (Grove Press Poetry)

Lindsay, Sarah

ISBN 10: 0802139442 / ISBN 13: 9780802139443

Published by Grove Press, U.S.A., 2002

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Slightest Of Edgewear/Shelfwear, Else Still Crisp. P/O Inscription In Pencil On Ffep. Signed On Title Page "Sarah Lindsay". 96 Pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mount Clutter (Grove Press Poetry)
• Publisher: Grove Press, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802139442
• ISBN 13: 9780802139443
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition First Printing Stated
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Sarah Lindsay's poems have been hailed as "dark-edged ... with a buoying sense of respect-for the different, the unexpected and the challenging." (Publishers Weekly) Lindsay's new collection, Mount Clutter, is the product of an immensely original and exhilarating poetic sensibility, ranging wide across a highly distinctive imaginary landscape. In a voice that is distinctly her own, Lindsay probes the uncharted territories of history's curious little corners, reanimating obscure accounts of strange discoveries and bizarre scientific findings. A stunning sequence on the discovery of the Bufo Islands imagines what it means to encounter something as yet unnamed, unknown to human history, but bursting with possibilities. Lindsay similarly breathes new life into literary classics and ancient Greek myths, taking, for example, the well-known motif of Orpheus's descent into the underworld and transforming it into a hauntingly resonant portrait of the vicissitudes of loss. Lindsay's poems exude an extraordinary ability of fusing the outlandish and the little-known historical minutiae with the unmistakably familiar markers of the human experience. Mount Clutter is a remarkably sustained and self-assured performance -- stirring new poetry from the acclaimed 1997 national Book Award finalist. "[A] vision that beckons the reader after it into unexpected recognitions." -- W. S. Merwin

About the Author

Sarah Lindsay, the author of Primate Behavior, was born in Iowa in 1958 and was educated at St. Olaf College. Her work has appeared in many prominent magazines, including The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Georgia Review. She is the recipient of the Randall Jarrell scholarship awarded by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Sarah Lindsay lives in Greensboro with her husband and plays the cello with the Quartet mit Schlag.