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Blessings for the hands [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew Schwartz



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Autore: Schwartz Matthew <1977-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Blessings for the hands [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew Schwartz Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (82 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.6
Soggetto topico: Poetry
POETRY / General
Soggetto non controllato: poetry, disability, norms, literature, contemporary, poetics, creative writing, agency, autonomy, strength, power, reconciliation, confrontation, emotion, affect, mortality, corporeality, anger, joy, compassion, grief, difference, body, healing, crutches, mobility, imperfection, stumbling, human nature, society, gratitude, meaning
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3
Sommario/riassunto: From The Sky Inside the Shaking Tree What you feel reveals you. Watch for the sustenance inclined to a source, enamored of singularity, quickly here and quickly gone, shadow from which the body's courage comes. Fireflies apparently stumbling. I slapped one on my leg. Its blood glowed. Blessings for the Hands follows various speakers-often disabled speakers, who never once figure themselves as objects of complaint or self-pity-through the haunted dreamscape of "normalcy." Indeed, dreams are continuous presences in this unusually subtle and elegant debut collection that juxtaposes physical circumstances with the vast interior life of the imagination. The subjects of Blessings for the Hands are real and imagined confrontations-and reconciliations-between family members, friends, strangers, and animals. Matthew Schwartz's quasi-autobiographical verse complicates and clarifies the emotions waiting just underneath the patterns and expectations of the speakers' daylight lives, where anger, joy, corporeality, and mortality all seem to collide. For Schwartz, poetry is a sleight of hand that keeps the reader guessing through nearly imperceptible shifts between present vision and absent reality. Blessings for the Hands is a lyric reckoning of the tension between the life we are given and the life we are determined to lead. "Blessings for the Hands is emotionally strong and imaginatively wild, distinctive, deeply moving, without an ort of self-pity, and pervaded by 'compassion down to your fingertips' (which Chekhov said is 'the only method' both to write and to live). This angle of vision is sharp enough to unify much disparate material. The poems are clear and musical and consequently a pleasure to read and reread despite their gravity. I think this may be lasting work."-Michael Ryan
Titolo autorizzato: Blessings for the hands  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-226-74097-8
1-282-00500-6
9786612005008
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782995703321
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Serie: Phoenix poets.