Present Tense - Softcover

Rabinowitz, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890650455 ISBN 13: 9781890650452

Verlag: Omnidawn Publishing, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

"A searing book-length poem ... an unbridled account of an apocalypse-in-the-now." ---Publishers Weekly

"`Ask time to make the pieces fit,' Anna Rabinowitz writes as the structures---as is her way---a masterful book-length poem. Its forms alternate between imperatives and prayers, between lyric, statement, anaphoric chant, jingle, and abecedarian. Each section is multi-tracked in the voices of victims and victimizers. Hard-edged, un-predictable, and intense, the work all but lurches out of your hands. Hold on." ---Forrest Gander

"The relation of time to violence constitutes the central question of this piercing work. Using a wide range of voices and various forms, from litany to quotation to dialogue to nursery rhyme, Rabinowitz tries to occupy the present as a kind of prayer that could disengage the hurtling fall of time and disarm its inevitable news. It is news we recognize, and while her goal is impossible, the beauty of the attempt is deeply moving." ---Cole Swensen

"Anna Rabinowitz's Present Tense is packed with urgent questions about morality, mortality and god. Through anaphora, acrostics, interviews, letters to famous figures, postcard questionnaires, counterintelligence interrogation manuals and contorted nursery rhymes (to name just a few of Rabinowitz's inventive strategies), she summons up a past where `god was a ravenous god/ a mouth before words, `and a present in which `Hearts blacken in unblossoming.' It's fierce and unflinching reckoning." ---Matthea Harvey

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Anna Rabinowitz is an award-winning writer of three collections of poetry: At the Site of Inside Out, Darkling, and The Wanton Sublime: A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Paris Review, Southwest Review, Sulfur, and Verse and in the anthologies The Best American Poetry, The KGB Bar Reader, Life on the Line, Poetry After 9/11, Poetry Daily, and The Poets’ Grimm. She lives in New York City.

ANNA RABINOWITZ has published three books of poetry, The Wanton Sublime: A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders, Tupelo, 2006, Darkling, Tupelo, 2001 (which will be translated into German and published by Luxbooks, Wesibaden, Germany, forthcoming 2010), and At the Site of Inside Out, University of Mass. Press 1997. Darkling was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Best Poetry Book of 2001 Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2002, and At the Site of Inside Out was a winner of the Juniper Prize. American Opera Projects transformed Darkling into an experimental opera-theatre work that blurs distinctions between poetry, theater, and music. This production had its world premiere to great critical acclaim on February 26, 2006 at the 13th St. Theatre, NYC. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 2001, Anna Rabinowitz has published widely in such journals as Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Southwest Review, Denver Quarterly, Sulfur, LIT, VOLT, Verse, and Doubletake. Her work has also been reprinted in The Best American Poetry 1989, edited by Donald Hall, Life on the Line: Selections on Words and Healing, The KGB Bar Reader, The Poets' Grimm, Poetry Daily, and Poetry After 9/11.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Omnidawn Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1890650455
• ISBN 13: 9781890650452
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 117
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