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Trembling Air: Poems (University of Arkansas Press Poetry)
Michelle Boisseau
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Paperback. Moving through us in waves of light and sound, the words and trappings of the material world brim here with spiritual force and resonate with the power of things poised on the brink of revelation. Editor(s): Shomer, Enid. Series: University of Arkansas Press Poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 195.
In these poems, Michelle Boisseau troubles sound into music and light into color. She renders the physics of absence and the deceptions of presence: a garage full of haunted tools, the ordinary and odd lives embodied in medieval paintings, the voice of a father traveling on radio waves. The poems' contemplative, rigorous intelligence affirms pleasure in the fallen world, picking out the golden thread in a dark tapestry. Moving through us in waves of light and sound, the words and trappings of the material world brim here with spiritual force and resonate with the power of things poised on the ... Read more
In these poems, Michelle Boisseau troubles sound into music and light into color. She renders the physics of absence and the deceptions of presence: a garage full of haunted tools, the ordinary and odd lives embodied in medieval paintings, the voice of a father traveling on radio waves. The poems' contemplative, rigorous intelligence affirms pleasure in the fallen world, picking out the golden thread in a dark tapestry. Moving through us in waves of light and sound, the words and trappings of the material world brim here with spiritual force and resonate with the power of things poised on the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Series
University of Arkansas Press Poetry
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557287526
SKU
V9781557287526
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About Michelle Boisseau
Michelle Boisseau is also the author of Understory, winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize; No Private Life; and, with the late Robert Wallace, Writing Poems. She has won many awards, including an NEA fellowship. She teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
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