The Black Riviera [Signed by author]

Jarman, Mark

ISBN 10: 0819511722 / ISBN 13: 9780819511720

Published by Wesleyan University Press [1990], Hanover, NH, 1990

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As new. Inscribed by author on half-title page and signed by author on title page. ; Wesleyan Poetry; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Black Riviera [Signed by author]
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press [1990], Hanover, NH
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819511722
• ISBN 13: 9780819511720
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: Second Printing.
• Condition: Fine+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Literature
  • Anthologies
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Bold narrative poems that recreate the past. Yet, these are ultimately poems of survival. Jarman explores the redemptive power of the imagination and the ways in which we transform experience into stories we tell about our lives. His characters vividly express the will to cling to existence and understand it as they pursue the meaning of family, home, identity, and love. Invented memories resurrect a forgotten past, opening doors of possibility and adding a strange richness to everyday life. "Flowers of the flesh, / Hung on the cliffs to watch and be watched./ Don't let me see reproach, don't let me see it, / In your eyes. Let me be the only one/ Who knows and tells you."

About the Author

The many places in which MARK JARMAN has lived have become settings for his poetry--from Santa Maria and Redondo Beach, California to Kirkcaldy, Scotland, where his minister father served parishes, to the American Midwest and Italy, where he has studied and worked.

Jarman is associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and has directed Vanderilt's program at the University of Leeds in England. A graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A. 1974) and the University of Iowa (M.F.A. 1976), he is the author of five other books of poetry, North Sea, The Rote Walker, Far and Away, Iris, and Tonight is the Night of the Prom. Jarman is also coeditor of the literary journal The Reaper. He has received a Joseph Henry Jackson award, an academy of American Poets prize, the Poets' Prize, a Guggenheim, and three NEA grants, including one in 1983 in support of the poems written for this book.