The Willow Grove: Poems - Hardcover

Sheck, Laurie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679447148 ISBN 13: 9780679447146

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

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Book by Sheck Laurie

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Interweaves the contemporary with the mythic in a collection of poetry that contains a series of poems, each entitled "The Book of Persephone," that explores the Underworld through a fractured lens of modern life.

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interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet tinged with the light of distance and myth. It is a realm where faces on a television newscast disappear "into the undertow / of hunger for the next thing and the next," and mannequins "stand in their angelic armor."

Placed at intervals throughout these pages is a series of poems entitled "From The Book of Persephone," poems that explore the underworld through a fractured contemporary lens, depicting it as a psychological landscape of isolation and desire.

As Mona Van Duyn said of Laurie Sheck's previous book, Io at Night, "When her sensibility and the reverberating myth are in perfect conjunction, the extraordinary happens: the mythical figure enters the poet's imagination so consumingly that it is impossible to tell whose life, whose feelings fill the form

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679447148
• ISBN 13: 9780679447146
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 69