Wound Is the Origin of Wonder: Poems

Popa, Maya C.

ISBN 10: 1324076216 / ISBN 13: 9781324076216

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2024

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Award-winning poet Maya C. Popa suggests that our restless desires are inseparable from our mortality in this pressing and precise collection. Rooting out profound meaning in language to wrench us from the moorings of the familiar and into the realm of the extraordinary, the volume asks, how do we articulate what’s by definition inarticulable? Where does sight end and imagination begin?Lucid and musically rich, these poems sound an appeal to a dwindling natural world and summon moments from the lives of literary forbearers—John Milton’s visit to Galileo, a vase broken by Marcel Proust—to unveil fresh wonder in the unlikely meetings of the past. Popa dramatizes the difficulties of loving a world that is at once rich with beauty and full of opportunities for grief, and reveals that the natural arc of wonder, from astonishment to reflection, more deeply connects us with our humanity.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith, recipient of the North American Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in the Nation and the Paris Review, among other publications. The poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she lives in New York City.

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Titel: Wound Is the Origin of Wonder: Poems
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good