The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit - Softcover

Marques, Irene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189477096X ISBN 13: 9781894770965

Verlag: TSAR PUBN, 2012

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Book by Marques Irene

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Priase for Wearing Glasses of Water:
"What impresses most in Irene Marques's first book of poetry, are the expansive situations she creates. Rarely does small abide over large, or unadorned show instead of ornate, for this Portuguese-born Canadian writer revels in abundance and lush coloring. Call this fat poetry, not thin. At its best it reminds me of the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: everything writ large and interconected."
- ARC: Canada's National Poetry Magazine
"The essence of Marques's poetry is a peep into the compleximensions and psychological states of being, of creativeness and inventiveness with the Word, of themes and motifs of libidinal drives or instincts, of internal emotional conflicts where individual impulses and needs must be placed in ethical resolution with social or moral obligations."
- African Journal of New Poetry

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Poetry. THE PERFECT UNRAVELLING OF THE SPIRIT is about memory of being, being in body, spirit and speculation. It unravels the remembrances and cognitions forged in the mind as it recalls life through images that are intensely reflective, transtemporal, sensual, daunting and mournful, sometimes feeling like never-ending, lazy arias. As we move from poem to poem, we dwell in magnificent displays of sensations, ideas, and moods, happy and sorrowful, pleading and celebratory, allowing ourselves to reconstruct life through the physicality of the body or the world, perceiving their pulsating powers and anchoring ourselves in the house that we sometimes forget we have. The collection is also about memory of place, of family, of birth, and memory obtained through formal learning, and how that memory, in all its dimensions, is transposed to the page, recreated and reinvented. Deeply philosophic as well as lyrical, the collection interrogates the idea of memory in multiple narratives that juxtapose various modes of expression, argumentation, mood, imagery, tone, and cultural references.

"THE PERFECT UNRAVELLING OF THE SPIRIT ties the secular rituals of everyday to sacred rites of passage, binding language to love and longing, and to the livelihoods that are Irene Marques' birthright. These poems bring new and old worlds into dialogue, and poetry into the presence of timeless, generous spirits."—Edward Chamberlin

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• Verlag: TSAR PUBN
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 189477096X
• ISBN 13: 9781894770965
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 73