Where Horizons Go: Poems (Paperback)

by Rhina P. Espaillat (Author)

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Product Description
A collection of unforgettable poems, 'Where Horizons Go' is as compelling as it is technically stunning. The book bridges the sometimes vast distances between the personal and the impersonal, the transitory and the permanent, the imagined and the real, the internal and the external, the self and the other. The language here is always clear, always controlled without sacrificing sincerity or honesty. Read this book again and again and be rewarded every time.

About the Author
Rhina P Espaillat

Product Details

• Paperback: 70 pages
• Publisher: Truman State University Press (May 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0943549566
• ISBN-13: 978-0943549569
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #777,794 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing Students Back with Rhina, December 30, 1999

By	reverser (Newton, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

I've taught Rhina's work for the last two years at a small northeastern college, and the students respond to her as to no one else. They understand her work and love it, and when they're not sure, she intrigues them mightily. You cannot go wrong with "Where Horizons Go."ÿ

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Conversational formal verse, February 14, 1999

By A Customer

I've been reading Rhina Espaillat's work for a decade. She enjoys the restriction of formal verse: sonnets, villanelles, and sestinas, for example. On the page, her work looks formal. In the ear, it sounds conversational. It's a difficult and precise balance, and when it works, the effect is magic. She's been making it work for nearly fifty years.

The poet was born in the Dominican Republic. English, her second language, is a subject she taught for many years. She revels in the glories of it, all the beauties of poetic device. She brings to her work the wisdom of an immigrant, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a teacher, and a shrewd observer of the poignant details of nothing more than the color brown, and nothing less than her own parent's Alzheimer's Disease.

These poems will raise the hair on the back of your arm.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An elegant first collection, June 14, 2002

By	[e-mail] "[e-mail]" (Beaumont, tx USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Where Horizons Go (Hardcover)

Sonnets, villanelles, formal poetry of all types are found in Ehina Espaillat's first collection. Her poems aren't constricted or artificial, but come out with an elegance not often seen in poets today. Every poem in this collection is evidence that she loves language, poetry, and the challenge that comes in writing in rhyme and meter. The subjects of her poems range widely, though there does seem to be a high ratio of poems about poetry. There is also an interesting essay at the end of the collection that discusses growing up bilingual (Espaillat is from the Dominican Republic, and Spanish is her native tongue), which leads into a discussion of the beauty of language. Both the poems and the essay make this a book to treasure.