The Paper Wasp [Paperback]

Teresa Cader (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

The best of Cader's second collection, (after Guests, Ohio State Univ., 1991) is "a poetics of birth," a journeylike sequence of 14 poems celebrating the conception, prenatal "engendering," and "birthing" of a child. "I think about the body's secrets," Cader admits, speculating on the "sacred" mystery of "amniotic sleep," with child or poem about to be drawn from "the edge of being" into "the way of flesh." Wonder-laden poems, seen as if under a microscope, seek forms of what they describe: "A variegated fern blossoms there/ in the opulent milk of mucus and sperm." The title poem pays tribute to Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese ancient who invented paper by watching "the wasp/ spin its white nest." Twelve final poems commemorate the suffering and victimization of Eugenia Ginzburg, a Russian historian and poet. A little less erudition would allow this human poetry to reach mainstream readers.?Frank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, PA
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Review

At The Edge Of Being
Atom
By The River
Can't
Correspondence
The Devil
Empress Shotoku Invents Printing In 770
Empty Is My Fullness
An Excuse
Fists
Internal Exile: 1. How It Happened
Internal Exile: 10. Anton
Internal Exile: 11. Bach
Internal Exile: 12. Gladioli, 1954
Internal Exile: 2. The Summons
Internal Exile: 3. Momentum
Internal Exile: 4. Lyadsky Park
Internal Exile: 5. Pushkin
Internal Exile: 6. Elgen Forest
Internal Exile: 7. Intellectuals
Internal Exile: 8. Siege Of Leningrad
Internal Exile: 9. Blizzard
Invisible Order
A Legend Of Paper Money
Massage
Oeuvre, Spirulina, Mugwomp
The Paper Artist At Work
A Poetics Of Birth
A Primer
Scapula
Six Entries On The Invention Of Paper
Spirit Papers
The Sumerian Symbol For Bird
The Task
Three Parables: 1. The Paralytic
Three Parables: 2. Unclean
Three Parables: 3. The Bent-over Woman
Wind, Horse, Snow
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 81 pages
• Publisher: Triquarterly; 1 edition (February 24, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810150840
• ISBN-13: 978-0810150843
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,300,408 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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