Little Ice Age (Contemporary Classics Poetry series) [Hardcover]

Maureen Seaton (Author)

Book Description

Series: Contemporary Classics Poetry series | Publication Date: April 1, 2001

To enrich readers' experience, the Contemporary Classics Poetry series prints the best of today's works in beautiful casebound editions. The four poets that start the series are emerging stars who brilliantly point the way in language and imagery for generations to come.

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Seaton produces prose poems, imperfectly rhymed terza rima, couplets of several different line lengths and stress patterns, and blank-verse-like paragraphs. In poems like "Vows of Chastity and Indulgence," she treads minefields of sexual development, and in poems anaphorically titled "When I Was . . .,"she spins out a satiric series. Instead of the laughter and sympathy otrher poets might evoke, Seaton elicits winces and alarm. Her prose poems are especially intense, provocatively wedding sex and violence or, like many of her verse poems, portraying the ecstasies of religious, sexual, or sheer physical exuberance. She risks unintelligibility but never boredom. Ray Olson
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Read it and weep; read it and wonder; read it and gasp; read it and open your own notebook-but read it." -- Marilyn Hacker

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Invisible Cities Press Llc (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967968372
• ISBN-13: 978-0967968377
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,464,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars charged, July 20, 2001

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This review is from: Little Ice Age (Contemporary Classics Poetry series) (Hardcover)

At first you think this is going to be easy, the voice is so charming, especially at the beginning. But prickly bits start showing up, knots and wit. This is a complicated poet unafraid to explore new form--some prose poems here--and new feeling. Her last book, Furious Cooking, simmered with anger and delight but this one wants to play more or change more, go somewhere else with feeling. "Near Wild Heaven," "Fiddleheads," "endometriosis" stand out in a stand-out book. Pop music (and culture) is sometimes invoked, not so much to place the work in time but more like this is what we've got, make it beautiful.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book., May 25, 2001

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Sarah Rothberger - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Ice Age (Contemporary Classics Poetry series) (Hardcover)

Little Ice Age is a tough book. It moves fast, deftly, through images, through the language of a speaker who is trying to find sense in her memory and experience. This speaker asks us to follow her, demands our attention. I connect to these poems as poet and as a person. They touch the deepest and most complicated parts of being human, being woman, being lesbian. I first read Maureen Seaton when a friend let me borrow a copy of Furious Cooking. I became immediatly hooked on her metaphor, her language, the connections she made between words and feeling. This book continues to do what I first admired Maureen for. Is this the face of contempory American poetry? I hope so. Prose poems, free verse, formal work...this is what poetry is all about. Plus, it's wonderful, deep, heart-wrenching, amazing. This is an excellent book. Buy it.