News from Where I Live: Poems (Arkansas Poetry Award) - Softcover

Lammon, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155728508X ISBN 13: 9781557285089

Verlag: UNIV OF ARKANSAS PR, 1998

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Winner of the eighth annual Arkansas Poetry Award, Martin Lammon writes poems that deal fearlessly and directly with their subjects. Tenderness, complexity, compassion, reverence, and condemnation are all within his range.

Writing of love, he can speak broadly and universally of the heart, yet in the same poem, he can intricately describe a woman’s hand, a fire on a beach, or the hollows around a lover’s eye. Even when he works in the voice of a suicide, his precision can be devastating, as in these lines: “When you lie beside me under stars, each needlepoint / of light pricks my bare arms.”

With equal ease, Lammon travels across miles, cultures, and time, writing of kilns and potters in Japan, long-dead Eskimos in Alaska, or Blue Hole Cave in Pennsylvania.

Full of grace and candor, these poems pursue the stories that shimmer behind the day’s headlines, seeking the spirit at stake in the “lives beside [our] own whose secrets are worth loving.”

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Martin Lammon edited Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Ploughshares and the Gettysburg Review, and were chosen by W. S. Merwin as winner of a Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. He holds the Callaway/ Flannery O’Connor Chair in Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville.

Martin Lammon holds the Callaway/Flannery O'Connor Chair in Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville.

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The authenticity of feeling the feelings themselves and the subjects from which they arise the honesty with which [Martin Lammon] confronts the pain of existence and the consequences of our mortal damage and liability the evanescence of what we love our implications in the losses we live through and the chord of mixed feelings that is the bass accompaniment of our survival are all there and constantly there in his work.

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The authenticity of feeling the feelings themselves and the subjects from which they arise the honesty with which [Martin Lammon] confronts the pain of existence and the consequences of our mortal damage and liability the evanescence of what we love our implications in the losses we live through and the chord of mixed feelings that is the bass accompaniment of our survival are all there and constantly there in his work.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF ARKANSAS PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 155728508X
• ISBN 13: 9781557285089
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 62
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