Text(Isles) (Signed First Edition)

KASSELL, Nancy

ISBN 10: 1939929059 / ISBN 13: 9781939929051

Published by Dos Madres Press Inc, Loveland, OH, 2013

About this Item

First edition. Softcover. 72 pages. A paperback original collection of poems. A near fine copy in wrappers. Signed and warmly inscribed by Kassell to poet Marie Ponsot on the title page. A very nice association copy. Seller Inventory # 171194

Bibliographic Details

Title: Text(Isles) (Signed First Edition)

Publisher: Dos Madres Press Inc, Loveland, OH

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Soft cover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Poetry. "Nancy Kassell's new (and first) collection TEXT(ISLES) is mature, humane, truly learned. The poems, unique, accurate, beautiful, are a model of emotional intelligence. Their context is as multidimensional as life and history itself. They evoke the classical world—Horace, Ovid, Aeneas, myth revisited; they introduce a woman-friendly world especially in their focus on the significance and language of cloth, of sewing, of pattern and texture; they 'translate' music (Brahms, Bach), painting (Klee, Soutine), art history; they explore sky, earth, water, cellular life; they evoke the centrality of love. Like the title, the poems fragment and reconcile the worlds they create. Myth and metaphor and 'reality' are interchangeable—and fresh. 'It is no news,/ that we have to reinvent ourselves/ again and again./ Unless we've already given up,/ the light over the drawing board/ is always on.' There is reassurance in the scope and beauty of TEXT(ISLES), hope in its minutest details."—Sondra Zeidenstein

About the Author:

Nancy Kassell (b. 1936, Albany, New York) earned a PhD in Classics from the University of California-Berkeley. She taught Greek and Latin languages and literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, and UMass-Boston, and published articles on Horace and Ovid. She is also the author of a feminist cultural study, The Pythia on Ellis Island: Rethinking the Greco-Roman Legacy in America. Kassell turned to writing her own poetry some twenty years ago. Her poems are forthcoming in Speaking for my Self: Women Poets in their Seventies and Eighties (Chicory Blue Press), and have been published in the anthologies Verse and Universe, Poems about Science and Mathematics, and Family Reunion: Poems about Parenting Grown Children, and in literary journals (Notre Dame Review, BORDERLANDS, Eclipse, Willow Springs, Salamander and others). She is also the author of essays in The Road Retaken: Women Reenter the Academy, When a Lifemate Dies, and in the New York Times. She was a founding member of The Writers' Room of Boston. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.