| Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems Contributor(s): Frost, Carol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810150980 ISBN-13: 9780810150980 Publisher: Triquarterly Books OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: The strength of Carol Frost's Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems lies not only in the excellence of her work but in the very presentation, which gives a new vitality to her most beloved and familiar poems. This collection will most assuredly find Frost new readers and thrill those already acquainted with her work. The volume is arranged in three sections. The first, "New Poems", affirms Frost's sensitivity for rhythms and wordplay, as in the poem "Matins": ...I've made myself ill with the glory in the unleavened garden disgorged the lies and scared away with a stick the snake. "Abstractions", the second part of the book, is an exercise in form and frugality, deftly executed. In part 3, "Selections", earlier poems have been alphabetically ordered, creating a new frame for these works. In this arrangement, the poems can be read in the context of poetry itself, not in the light of chronology, which highlights Frost's impressive eye for detail and the poignancy of the language, musical and thrilling, transfiguring each work into empathy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 00008057 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.31" W x 9.28" (0.79 lbs) 130 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems combines twenty new poems by Carol Frost with a substantial selection of work from her previous seven books. In forms ranging from the sonnet to the lyric to the narrative, Frost's poems are fiery, passionate meditations on experience and consciousness. |
