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Barter: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series)
Ira Sadoff
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Description for Barter: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series)
paperback. A collection of poems that find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. It comments on the power of culture to interject itself into our desire for an idealized self, the way our inner and outer lives lack correspondence, harmony, and integration. Series: Illinois Poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 203. Weight in Grams: 136.
Ira Sadoff’s new volume of poems opens with a quotation from Rilke: “But because truly being here is so much; because everything here / apparently needs us, the fleeting world, which in some strange way / keeps calling us. . . .” The poetry collected here is a response to this call.
Rooted firmly in the “fleeting world,” Sadoff’s poems find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. The poems in Barter delve deeply into the past, the personal past of regret, travel, love, divorce, and bereavement, as well as the global past ... Read more
Ira Sadoff’s new volume of poems opens with a quotation from Rilke: “But because truly being here is so much; because everything here / apparently needs us, the fleeting world, which in some strange way / keeps calling us. . . .” The poetry collected here is a response to this call.
Rooted firmly in the “fleeting world,” Sadoff’s poems find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. The poems in Barter delve deeply into the past, the personal past of regret, travel, love, divorce, and bereavement, as well as the global past ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Series
Illinois Poetry
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071201
SKU
V9780252071201
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Reviews for Barter: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series)
ADVANCE PRAISE "Ira Sadoff is a master of language, of concentration, of vision, of knowledge, of irony. If there are ten important poets writing in English today, he is one of them."
Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern