Helsinki - Softcover

Richards, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979975557 ISBN 13: 9780979975554

Verlag: Action Books, 2011

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Reseña del editor:

Poetry. This narrative lyric sequence is

lit with a ravishing light: part erotic,

part nuclear, entirely mutagenic,

dangerously Sublime. From a point both

in the past and the future, from a

narrow cell that is at once the lyric,

the body, a fort, a hospital bed, an

escape pod, the mind, and memory itself,

the narrator relates in image-rich lines

the several rises and falls of a

beloved, a queen, a monster, a regime,

an imperium, a self, and the self's

various selves: as lover, captive,

traitor, soldier, sensory apparatus and

memory machine. Like Dante's La Vita

Nuova, HELSINKI shows how the

lyric, while apparently encapsulated by

form, is in fact vulnerable to dazzling

competing proximities—to Love, to

the Past, to Story, to Power, and to

Obliteration.

Biografía del autor:

Peter Richards was born in 1967 in Urbana, Illinois. He is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the John Logan Award. His poems have appeared in Agni, Colorado Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, FENCE, The Yale Review, and other journals. He is the author of OUBLIETTE (Verse Press/Wave Books, 2001), which won the Massachusetts Center for the Book Honors Award; NUDE SIREN (Verse Press/Wave Books, 2003); and HELSINKI (Action Books, 2011). The University of Montana-Missoula's visiting Hugo Poet Spring Semester 2011, Richards has taught at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston.

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• Verlag: Action Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0979975557
• ISBN 13: 9780979975554
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 97