Moraine [Paperback]

Joanna Fuhrman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 30, 2006

"Fuhrman is a queen of drama, rather than a drama queen. A royal highness of storytelling, she reigns supreme in these polyphonic, textured, and generous poems."--Denise Duhamel

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A moraine is a hill or mound of soil and debris created by a moving glacier; the exciting mishmash of insights, associations, charms, jokes and biting social commentary in Fuhrman's third collection partake of the sedimentary, omnium-gatherum variety her book title (which shows up in the titles of all the individual poems here) suggests. Where real moraines occur in valleys or forests, though, Fuhrman's poems evoke busy, chatty, gossipy, cities: her dense surfaces owe something to the New York School, something to New York itself: "the workers sleeping/ in the skyscraper don't mind the rain banging against/ the windows and I am not the car being driven/ under the river." The flirtatious "Moraine for Bob" mocks (and admires) the idioms of erotic love ("I was never a wild Slinky/ in the sex-club sense of a toy") and of literary history. Jumping from topic to topic, trope to trope, the Brooklyn-based Fuhrman unifies her "moraines" partly by their recurring themes and inside jokes, but mostly by her speaker's strangeness and charm. With this follow-up to her well-received Ugh Ugh Ocean (2003), she's well positioned somewhere in the nifty triangle formed by Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and the Shins. (Apr.)
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About the Author

Joanna Fuhrman's poetry has appeared in such publications as NEW AMERICAN WRITING, AMERICAN LETTERS AND COMMENTARY, CONDUIT, LIT and LUNGFULL!, as well as in two collections of her own, FREUD IN BROOKLYN and UGH UGH OCEAN. She has taught writing on many different levels, from homeless shelters to the University of Washington, and also served as a readings coordinator for the Poetry Project at Saint Mark's Church. She lives in Brooklyn.

Product Details

• Paperback: 76 pages
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Press (January 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931236534
• ISBN-13: 978-1931236539
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,170,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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