| Miss America Contributor(s): Wagner, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0966332474 ISBN-13: 9780966332476 Publisher: Fence Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2001 Annotation: Catherine Wagner makes poetry of contemporary erudition and confession out of a new sort of baroque plain speech. Her roving eye and ear take into consideration all the offerings of our world--magazines, breakfast, ghosts--and find brilliant encryptions of human physical reality in perfect words. Nothing is too far away or too close to warrant reaction: Good Housekeeping, Edmund Spenser, mayonnaise, boobs, death; all comprise Wagner's vernacular of music and knowledge, a kind of thinking out loud that translates into a witty, vertiginous awareness. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Literary Collections | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2001093170 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.04" W x 8" (0.25 lbs) 68 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The poems of Catherine Wagner are instantly sacramental, immediately mysterious. Showing songlines to Spicer's profanity and to Zukofsky's purest register, they move through musics entirely their own. There, MISS AMERICA finds a world wide-open but unharmed. There, Wagner proves the wisdom of divided hearts. She is a mage and a marvel. I believe she is our best. --Donald Russell |