| Aggregate of Disturbances Contributor(s): Glazer, Michele (Author) |
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ISBN: 0877458782 ISBN-13: 9780877458784 Publisher: University of Iowa Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2004 Annotation: IN "Aggregate of Disturbances, Michele Glazer confronts the slipperiness of language and perception as she probes natural processes--the lives of insects, the uncertainty of love, and the deaths of human beings. Nature's beauty interests Glazer less than the fact that it is chaotic, amoral, redundant, charming, and indifferent to human concern--qualities that are, in these poems, turned into another kind of beauty. "The stalk was knocked flat & the allium's great lavender sphere / kissed the dirt & in the aftermath the pendulous blossomed / tip bobbed like a wand madly attempting to enchant-enchant-enchant. // I wanted to believe that it happened to amuse me." These taut lyrical poems negotiate between desire for something irrefutable and an uneasy bedrock of paradox. In the interstices, "Aggregate of Disturbances breaks open language and experience to offer a glimpse of "the eye on the other side." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2003063407 |
| Series: Iowa Poetry Prize |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 6.36" W x 7.98" (0.24 lbs) 55 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Here, the author confronts the slipperiness of language and perception as she probes natural processes - the lives of insects, the uncertainty of love and the deaths of human beings. The poems negotiate between desire for something irrefutable and an uneasy bedrock of paradox. |