| Folk Music in the United States: An Introduction Contributor(s): Nettl, Bruno (Author), Myers, Helen (Revised by) |
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ISBN: 0814315577 ISBN-13: 9780814315576 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $26.72 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1976 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Religious - General - Literary Criticism - Music | Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional |
| Dewey: 781.77 |
| LCCN: 76000084 |
| Series: Wayne Books; Wb41; Humanities |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.25" (0.48 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Folding a River, a collection of elegies, shows a pleasing range of free-verse forms that develop themes sustained throughout: loss, exile, myth, landscape. Kawita Kandpal's poems are explorations of East-West cultures, taking her into an emo-mythic place not to be found on any map. Kandpal's mood in Folding a River is melancholy, articulated with intelligence and grace, and her phrasing can rise to the level of proverb: "This time next year you will have evolved into an idea." In its personal evocations of geographical and linguistic exile from the subcontinent, centered on a lost father, her work recalls that of Li-Young Lee, yet with a feminine perspective often haunting in its own right: "tenderly / taking back the mistakes of men." |
