| Dying for Beauty: Poems Contributor(s): Wronsky, Gail (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556591357 ISBN-13: 9781556591358 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2000 Annotation: Whether paying tribute to literary icons such as Walt Whitman and Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, or examining global and cultural degradation, Wronsky proves to be a poet of sharp wit and endearing wonder. The crowning jewel of "Dying for Beauty" is "Desdemona," a nearly book-length lyric that alternates between meditation and dramatization, between discourse and incantation. "I started out thinking I was writing an elegy for the earth - from my own self, in my own neighborhood, with its crack addicts and war-like helicopters, its poverty and ?lthinessAnd yet also, here I was with a new daughter and this love in me, equal to nothing else." "Formally, the poem ['Desdemona'] brings into its amplitude and openness material that could be inert, but is lifted always by rhythmic urgency and a faultless, inventive music.Wronsky is also trying to think through the poem, reason passionately through its issues of language, gender, fear and loss."-"The Boston Review" Gail Wronsky received a BA and an MFA from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She is the author of two books of poetry and teaches at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.49" W x 8.93" (0.28 lbs) 96 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Whether paying tribute to literary icons such as Walt Whitman and Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, or examining global and cultural degradation, Wronsky proves to be a poet of sharp wit and endearing wonder. The crowning jewel of Dying for Beauty is Desdemona, a nearly book-length lyric that alternates between meditation and dramatization, between discourse and incantation. I started out thinking I was writing an elegy for the earth - from my own self, in my own neighborhood, with its crack addicts and war-like helicopters, its poverty and ?lthiness...And yet also, here I was with a new daughter and this love in me, equal to nothing else. Formally, the poem 'Desdemona'] brings into its amplitude and openness material that could be inert, but is lifted always by rhythmic urgency and a faultless, inventive music....Wronsky is also trying to think through the poem, reason passionately through its issues of language, gender, fear and loss.-The Boston Review Gail Wronsky received a BA and an MFA from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. She is the author of two books of poetry and teaches at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles. |