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Dance and Disappear (Juniper Prize for Poetry)
Laura Kasischke
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Description for Dance and Disappear (Juniper Prize for Poetry)
Paperback. The subject matter of these poems is ordinary: motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, and the American Midwest. But in addressing these subjects, Laura Kasischke finds and reveals the strangeness of the most common traditions and dilemmas. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 145.
The subject matter of these poems is ordinary: motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, the Midwest. But in addressing these topics, Laura Kasischke finds and reveals the strangeness of the most common traditions and dilemmas. These are poems that work to fuse reality and dream, life and death, logic and illogic. Kasischke precisely renders the experience we have of ourselves as physical and time-bound beings existing in a psychological and spiritual realm that seems to have no barriers or laws. The poems in this collection are both narrative and lyric, grounded in reality but also surreal, at once fully ... Read more
The subject matter of these poems is ordinary: motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, the Midwest. But in addressing these topics, Laura Kasischke finds and reveals the strangeness of the most common traditions and dilemmas. These are poems that work to fuse reality and dream, life and death, logic and illogic. Kasischke precisely renders the experience we have of ourselves as physical and time-bound beings existing in a psychological and spiritual realm that seems to have no barriers or laws. The poems in this collection are both narrative and lyric, grounded in reality but also surreal, at once fully ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
60
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558493520
SKU
V9781558493520
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Ref
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About Laura Kasischke
LAURA KASISCHKE is the author of three previous books of poetry, Wild Brides, Housekeeping in a Dream, and Fire & Flower, and two novels, Suspicious River and White Bird in a Blizzard. Her new novel, The Life before Her Eyes, is forthcoming. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan.
Reviews for Dance and Disappear (Juniper Prize for Poetry)
Laura Kasischke handles earthly subjects adeptly even while making visionary leaps. [She] can recall James Wright, Randall Jarrell, or Jorie Graham, but she resembles none for long. Volatile, sometimes shocking, and seamless, her poems greet, tame, or confront the trials of puberty, medicine and marriage.... Balancing the quotidian with the estranging, fluent sentences with rumbling stanzas, and tenderness with anger, ... Read more