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Restoration: Poems (Triquarterly)
Christina Pugh
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Description for Restoration: Poems (Triquarterly)
Hardcover. A collection of poems that moves along the line between waking and sleeping to reveal a narrator who is contemplating her origins as well as her future. It describes the image of a bed - as a source of comfort, an erotic landing, and a place for dreaming. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Complex and focused, this collection of poems moves along the line between waking and sleeping to reveal a narrator who is contemplating her origins as well as her future. Pugh frequently turns in her work to the image of a bed - as a source of comfort, an erotic landing, and a place for dreaming. For Pugh, dreams both obscure and reveal, their language a code to be analyzed, as in her longer meditation inspired by Freud's case history 'Dora'. After dipping dangerously far into dreams, Pugh's poems return to a world of activity, full of physicality before becoming calm. ... Read more
Complex and focused, this collection of poems moves along the line between waking and sleeping to reveal a narrator who is contemplating her origins as well as her future. Pugh frequently turns in her work to the image of a bed - as a source of comfort, an erotic landing, and a place for dreaming. For Pugh, dreams both obscure and reveal, their language a code to be analyzed, as in her longer meditation inspired by Freud's case history 'Dora'. After dipping dangerously far into dreams, Pugh's poems return to a world of activity, full of physicality before becoming calm. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Triquarterly
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810152069
SKU
V9780810152069
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Christina Pugh
A recipient of the Grolier Poetry Prize and a fellowship in poetry from the Illinois Arts Council, Christina Pugh is the author of Gardening at Dusk and Rotary, which was awarded the 2003 Word Press First Book Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared in journals including the Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Review, and Poetry. Pugh is an assistant professor in ... Read more
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