| Incontinence Contributor(s): Hahn, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226312720 ISBN-13: 9780226312729 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1993 Annotation: The poems collectively build up a novelistic world even as they individually retain all the intensity of focus associated with lyricism. Hahn's fevered book of human emotions becomes a powerful rumination on love, aging, and mutability in general. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 93010071 |
| Series: Phoenix Poets (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.55" W x 8.5" (0.30 lbs) 98 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Charged with sensuality, ferocity, and despair, this sequence of poems follows the progress of a central character's passionate romance. Hahn's fevered book of human emotions becomes a powerful rumination on love, aging, and mutability in general. Stitching together tropes about writing and technique, as well as hunting and the loss of sexual innocence, Hahn] marks and exploits the body with surgical precision in order to explore the peripheries of the personal lyric. She wants to take poetry to the most tangible and sensual extremes. It's often uncomfortable, and yet as often results in a poetry of generous, piercing honesty, as if (to rewrite Bradford) it's by the body we are 'plainly told.'--David Baker, Poetry Incontinence has an enormous, almost epic sweep.--Chicago Sun-Times |