Poetry in America

• Utgivningsdatum: 2011-08-28
• Mått: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
• Vikt: 152 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Pitt Poetry Series
• Antal sidor: 88
• Förlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• ISBN: 9780822961567

• Poesi

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author ofSleeping Preacher, Eve’s Striptease, Poetry in America, and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a documentary project created in collaboration with photographer Steven Rubin. She has also published a collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, and a biographical study, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.

I admire Julia Kasdorf's poems for their alert eye, attentive mind, vigilant heart, all fused into a single, sometimes painfully aware, vision of the world. Bristling with narrative surfaces, angular emotional interiors, humorous sympathies, her poems move in careful zigzags, like a bat. Her politically astute voice knows, understands, and without sentimentality embraces a universe of ordinary lives and unsung places—celebrating women's work, or her daughter's rapt in-taking of all that is new to her, or the nature of 'Poetry in America,' or the existential texture of Mennonite life, or simply sun flashing on a spider's thread, a blade of grass, / my own tanned skin. Plainspoken, both intimate and discreet, these poems take hold.

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