Rotary [Paperback]

Christina Pugh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2004

Winner of the 2003 Word Press First Book Prize

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The poems in Christina Pugh's Rotary, winner of the 2003 Word Press First Book Prize, display a fine-grained attention to the world's particulars that prompts a slowing down of readerly perception until the object, the feeling, the idea, is experienced in its full tactile presence. These are, in many senses, sensational poems.

From the Inside Flap

"If it is true that a good poem defines an emotion not found in any dictionary, then Christina Pugh is an astute lexicographer of the heart." -- Billy Collins

"In this gorgeous collection, Christina Pugh's musical intelligence, her painterly eye, her elegant ferocity, take on the world as if to show it to the reader for the first time....There is a tough-minded delicacy that tells me Pugh's poems will be speaking with us for a very long time." -- Gail Mazur

"The reader of Christina Pugh's poetry enters a realm of change, mystery, and beauty. Objects metamorphose -- flowers, paintings, a forgotten dress -- melding into the unfamiliar while remaining, or becoming, luminous versions of what they already are. Language is the agent of these transformations, and language, and the ways we use and are used by it, is the subject of many of these poems. In them and through them, we experience a poet's wonder at words; we accompany her in her process of discovery and creation where worlds unfurl into images which transmute into landscapes we can inhabit." -- Bruce Bennett

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Product Details

• Paperback: 84 pages
• Publisher: WordTech Communications; First edition. edition (June 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932339345
• ISBN-13: 978-1932339345
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,267,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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