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The Promised Folly
Judith Hall
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Description for The Promised Folly
Hardcover. In this work, Judith Hall explores the folly that follows mere existence and gives it back to her readers in different voices - Venus, Walt Whitman, Julius Caesar, "Ma" Rainey - voices that contain multitudes. Series: Triquarterly Books. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
If, as Oscar Wilde said, ""nothing ages like happiness,"" then nothing rejuvenates like a pursuit. That is certainly the American way, and in The Promised Folly, Judith Hall takes a fresh look at our American pursuits, our supreme fictions. She explores the folly that follows mere existence and gives it back to her readers in different voices - Venus, Walt Whitman, Julius Caesar, ""Ma"" Rainey - voices that contain multitudes. Whitman will become Falstaff, for example, and Venus becomes Mars Absurdities and incongruities, such as these, constitute for Hall, opportunities for lyric pleasure. The resulting poems are puckish, sumptuous, and ... Read more
If, as Oscar Wilde said, ""nothing ages like happiness,"" then nothing rejuvenates like a pursuit. That is certainly the American way, and in The Promised Folly, Judith Hall takes a fresh look at our American pursuits, our supreme fictions. She explores the folly that follows mere existence and gives it back to her readers in different voices - Venus, Walt Whitman, Julius Caesar, ""Ma"" Rainey - voices that contain multitudes. Whitman will become Falstaff, for example, and Venus becomes Mars Absurdities and incongruities, such as these, constitute for Hall, opportunities for lyric pleasure. The resulting poems are puckish, sumptuous, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Triquarterly
Condition
New
Series
Triquarterly Books
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810151369
SKU
V9780810151369
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Ref
99-15
About Judith Hall
JUDITH HALL is the author of To Put The Mouth To (William Morrow, 1992), which was selected for the National Poetry Series, and Anatomy, Errata (Ohio State, 1998), winner of the Ohio State University Press publication award. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her poems have appeared in such magazines ... Read more
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