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The Reservoir
Donna Stonecipher
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Description for The Reservoir
Paperback. In this debut collection of poems, a continual renovation of prose-poem forms unites narrative with lyricism to invent a little country, where the elegance of architecture, specifically European, houses a purely American spirit. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 127.
In Donna Stonecipher's debut collection of poems, a continual renovation of prosepoem forms unites narrative with lyricism to invent a luxurious little country, where the elegance of architecture, specifically European, houses a purely American spirit. ""Anything seen through an arch is instantly picturesque,"" declares the first line of ""Album."" Form renders meaning and makes beauty possible, and yet the arch is an artificial imposition on the scene. Likewise, birds, butterflies, and a swan flit through the poems, symbols of the artifice of ornamentation that dazzles in the distance but disappoints upon closer inspection; in these poems, a bird in the ... Read more
In Donna Stonecipher's debut collection of poems, a continual renovation of prosepoem forms unites narrative with lyricism to invent a luxurious little country, where the elegance of architecture, specifically European, houses a purely American spirit. ""Anything seen through an arch is instantly picturesque,"" declares the first line of ""Album."" Form renders meaning and makes beauty possible, and yet the arch is an artificial imposition on the scene. Likewise, birds, butterflies, and a swan flit through the poems, symbols of the artifice of ornamentation that dazzles in the distance but disappoints upon closer inspection; in these poems, a bird in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820324630
SKU
V9780820324630
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About Donna Stonecipher
Donna Stonecipher has published poems in the Denver Quarterly, Field, Indiana Review, New American Writing, Terra Incognita, and Web Conjunctions, among other journals. She lives in Seattle.
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