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Human Love
Doreen Gildroy
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Description for Human Love
Paperback. A meditation on the body as a source of joy, anxiety, and regeneration, this collection extends the capacity of the lyric to articulate human feeling while considering the complications of love, both human and divine, and the distinctions between them. It is more deeply an attempt to focus on the process of human creativity in general. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
Prolusion: This is my kitchen. I looked around. You think I would have noticed before that it was safe. (I started to feel.) What I wanted first was color. I intended terra cotta, but the paint turned twice as vibrant: true orange. (And then I became used to boldness.) Doreen Gildroy's second book of poems is a marvel of lyric exactitude. On the surface a book about a man and a woman trying to conceive a child, "Human Love" is more deeply an attempt to focus on the process of human creativity in general and, ultimately, the desire to remake ... Read more
Prolusion: This is my kitchen. I looked around. You think I would have noticed before that it was safe. (I started to feel.) What I wanted first was color. I intended terra cotta, but the paint turned twice as vibrant: true orange. (And then I became used to boldness.) Doreen Gildroy's second book of poems is a marvel of lyric exactitude. On the surface a book about a man and a woman trying to conceive a child, "Human Love" is more deeply an attempt to focus on the process of human creativity in general and, ultimately, the desire to remake ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Series
Phoenix Poets
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226293301
SKU
V9780226293301
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About Doreen Gildroy
Doreen Gildroy is the author of The Little Field of Self, published by the University of Chicago Press, winner of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares magazine.
Reviews for Human Love
"In my opinion, Phoenix Poets - which includes David Ferry, Turner Cassity, Donald Davie, Tom Sleigh, Alan Shapiro and the like - is second to none." - Richard Wilbur "No poet I know of is better at showing convincingly the courage by which happiness is seized or at conveying joy simply.... Gildroy's style is classicism made light as a feather, ... Read more