04085nam 2200961 a 450 991077954030332120230617014914.00-520-93769-410.1525/9780520937697(CKB)2550000001039342(EBL)1982560(SSID)ssj0000870604(PQKBManifestationID)11463557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870604(PQKBWorkID)10819223(PQKB)10922620(MiAaPQ)EBC1982560(DE-B1597)521033(OCoLC)1114840006(DE-B1597)9780520937697(Au-PeEL)EBL1982560(CaPaEBR)ebr10676223(OCoLC)905985099(EXLCZ)99255000000103934220030805d2004 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrThe seventy prepositions[electronic resource] poems /Carol SnowBerkeley University of California Press20041 online resource (122 p.)New California poetryDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-24081-2 0-520-24077-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-105).Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- The Seventy Prepositions -- VOCABULARY SENTENCES -- VANTAGE -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF PERMISSIONSCarol Snow's award-winning poetry has been admired and celebrated as "work of difficult beauty" (Robert Hass), "ever restless, ever re-framing the frame of reference" (Boston Review), teaching us "how brutally self-transforming a verbal action can be when undertaken in good faith" (Jorie Graham). In this, her third volume, Snow continues to mine the language to its most mysterious depths and to explore the possibilities its meanings and mechanics hold for definition, transformation, and emotional truth. These poems place us before, and in, language--as we stand before, and in, the world. The Seventy Prepositions comprises three suites of poems. The first, "Vocabulary Sentences," reflects on words and reality by taking as a formal motif the sort of sentences used to test vocabulary skills in elementary school. The poems of the second suite, "Vantage," gather loosely around questions of perspective and perception. The closing suite finds its inspiration in the Japanese dry-landscape gardens known as karesansui, such as the famous rock garden at Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto. Here the poet approaches composition as one faces a "miniature Zen garden," choosing and positioning words rather than stones, formally, precisely, evocatively.New California poetry.Rock gardens, JapanesePoetryamerican poets.award winning poetry.beauty.book club reads.change in perspective.contemporary poetry.definitions.emotional truth.formal.human perception.japanese gardens.karesansui.kyoto.linguistics.lit students.literary critics.meaning making.mechanics of poetry.modern poetry.poems.poetry collection.poetry.power of language.precise language.rock gardens.ryoan ji temple.transformation.verbal actions.vocabulary.words and language.zen garden.Rock gardens, Japanese811/.54Snow Carol1949-1493880MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779540303321The seventy prepositions3717117UNINA