The Queen's Desertion: Poems - Hardcover

Frost, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810151758 ISBN 13: 9780810151758

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2006

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"With her characteristic lyric grace and philosophical ease, Carol Frost asks life's most difficult questions as if they were the most casual and natural of all . . .and perhaps, they are. This is a superb collection." --David St. John "These poems should really be close-read for the intricate freefall of their language and their many and protean layers of observation, as well as of thought and feeling. This is a spectacular book." --Women's Review of Books "Frost remains a poet too little discussed and far too little celebrated, but for many readers who know her mature work she is indispensable." --The Boston Review

Reseña del editor:

In her tenth book, Carol Frost describes a journey through loss. How can one regain equilibrium in the face of absences such as dementia and death? We have to keep moving, even while realizing that the loss of mind and body is the natural conclusion. At the beginning of the first poem, Frost invokes the image of an empty or abandoned beehive - ""Pretty to think of the mind at its end / as a metaphysician beekeeping / after the leaves have fallen at autumn's end."" The bee metaphor is handled brilliantly and subtly throughout the collection as a reminder of how often our constant activity, whether it is mental or physical, is taken for granted. Frost continues her investigation of the mortal plight by entering into a Dantesque descent into the ebb and flow of the seascape. Body consumes body over and over again as fish are caught and killed and the poet observes the flora and fauna as they partake in the darker cycles of nature. A long narrative poem about the Spanish explorer de Baca and his harrowing travels from southern Florida to Mexico powerfully reinforces the certainty of consumption and loss as it comments on the colonizing of the new world. In the final section, Frost returns once more to the need for movement and summons the Greek god Pan, who dances a rite of acceptance through a metaphysical landscape on the verge of seasonal change - the bees are not dead, the dark woods are filled with music.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810151758
• ISBN 13: 9780810151758
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88