Fracas & Asylum - Softcover

Raab, Zara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1625490313 ISBN 13: 9781625490315

Verlag: David Robert Books, 2016

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Zara Raab's poems evoke the rainy darkness of the remote northern California coast where she and her family have lived for almost two hundreds years. They are collected in The Book of Gretel and Swimming the Eel, and now in a third book, Fracas & Asylum, which continues her journey through inner and outer landscapes characterized by alternating moods of storm, seclusion and reverie. A fourth book, finalist for the Dana Award and based on the tale of Rumpelstiltskin, is due out in 2013.

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Zara Raab's poems evoke the rainy darkness of the remote northern California coast where she and her family have lived for almost two hundreds years. FRACAS & ASYLUM continues her journey through inner and outer landscapes characterized by alternating moods of storm, seclusion and reverie. "In FRACAS & ASYLUM, her third collection, Raab emerges as a poet of mature accomplishment, one who has come fully awake to her vocation. The mythic landscapes of her northern California childhood still resonate with dark beauty, while her themes have widened and opened outward. A bravura description of tangled shoelaces doubles as an image of the clumsiness of love; putting on a sweater becomes an existential struggle against suffocation in all its guises; writing poetry is, for her, akin to deep-sea diving. Her language is playful, even mischievous at times, always surprising and original. In her formal daring and thematic breadth, Raab bears witness to much that is broken and awry in the world and labors in her poetry toward a restoration of wholeness."-Jean Nordhaus "The language of Zara Raab's FRACAS & ASYLUM moves in a loose, jazzy relationship with meter, or syllabics, and rhyme. The content of this complex, fascinating book-which ranges from introspection and autobiography-or perhaps persona poems-through botany, painting, life deep in the sea or in the air-also plays sinuously against the world. At one pole this is a poetry of wit and nuance, at the other, often where the poems slope suddenly off, begin to echo, Raab brings us into touch with brute fact, the actual."- Richard Silberg

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• Verlag: David Robert Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1625490313
• ISBN 13: 9781625490315
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102