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The seventy prepositions [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / Carol Snow



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Autore: Snow Carol <1949-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The seventy prepositions [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / Carol Snow Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (122 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.54
Soggetto topico: Rock gardens, Japanese
Soggetto non controllato: american 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-105).
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- The Seventy Prepositions -- VOCABULARY SENTENCES -- VANTAGE -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF PERMISSIONS
Sommario/riassunto: Carol 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The seventy prepositions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-93769-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779540303321
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Serie: New California poetry.