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Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream
Connie Voisine
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Description for Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream
paperback. Offers a collection of poems, which reflect places where women's longings quickly bloom and die in captivity. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 157 x 6. Weight in Grams: 124.
"The Bird is Her ReasonThere are some bodies that emergeinto desire as a godrises from the sea, emotion andmemory hang like dripping clothes - thiswant is likeentering that heated redon the mouth of a Delacroix lion,stalwart, always that redwhich makesmy teeth ache and my skin feela hand that has never touched me,the tree groaning outside becomesa man who knocks on my bedroom window,edge of red on gold fur,the horse, the wildflip of its head, the rake of clawsacross its back, the unfocussed,swallowed eye.""Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream" is a book haunted by the afterlife of medieval theology ... Read more
"The Bird is Her ReasonThere are some bodies that emergeinto desire as a godrises from the sea, emotion andmemory hang like dripping clothes - thiswant is likeentering that heated redon the mouth of a Delacroix lion,stalwart, always that redwhich makesmy teeth ache and my skin feela hand that has never touched me,the tree groaning outside becomesa man who knocks on my bedroom window,edge of red on gold fur,the horse, the wildflip of its head, the rake of clawsacross its back, the unfocussed,swallowed eye.""Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream" is a book haunted by the afterlife of medieval theology ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
Series
Phoenix Poets
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226863528
SKU
V9780226863528
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About Connie Voisine
Connie Voisine is associate professor of English at New Mexico State University and director of La Sociedad para las Artes, an arts out-reach organization. She is the author of Cathedral of the North, which received the Associated Writing Programs poetry award.
Reviews for Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream
"Voisine's poetry is wholly unsentimental, tactile, and filled with unexpected beauty. She is political in the best sense.... A dazzling, brave, and surprising first book." - Denise Duhamel, Ploughshares"