Dawn is "the red gaze." It unburdens itself through poetry and its colors.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for Students. Learn more |
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
If Nietzsche had been an American woman steeped in 20th-century modernist arts and letters and had undertaken to articulate how one can look back over a long life yet still grasp each present moment in its fullest intensities, he might have written like Guest, who invokes him repeatedly in this gorgeous, rigorous collection. The author of an acclaimed biography of H.D., the novel Seeking Air, a book of critical essays and more than 20 books of poems, Guest won the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal for lifetime achievement in 1999. In short stanzas and single lines that pour over the page, Guest writes as if recording the topmost level of impressions that have roots in unfathomable histories, personal and historical, "becoming less and less until the future faces you/ like the magpie you hid,/ exchanging feathers for other feathers." The diction of myth and fairly tale mixes freely with abstraction, image-rich observation, archaism and aphorism, but Guest's own unmistakable sensibility pervades every line. The result is uncannily beautiful and mercurial, clothed in a playfulness that comes of the deepest feeling: "Once more riding down to Venice on borrowed horses,/ the air free of misdemeanor, at rest in the inns of our fathers." (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From the Publisher
6 1/4 x 8 1/4 trim.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Precise nostalgic modernism,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: The Red Gaze (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (Hardcover)
Guest offers us an eliptical vision of artistic modernity through a nostalgic lens. Her poetic language is precise and elegant. The poems are not quite as elliptical as those in other recent books of hers. My favorite is "Imagined Room"
Do not forget the sky has other zones. Let it rest on the embankment, close they eyes...
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
