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Disfortune

Disfortune

Wenderoth, Joe

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0819512265
ISBN13: 9780819512260
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Aug 1 1995
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

Wenderoth's poetry features Terse and haunting lyrics that mark a new intimacy with the world

Disfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting lyrics expose the irreducible contradictions of living, wherein the talking-singing, the whole talking-/singing ball of yarn, begins to unravel. Deceptively casual in tone, these poems offer startling confrontations with the unoriginal/oblivion, with the contrived delicacy/of what is emptied and kept. Joe Wenderoth sees fortune as the mute history of events proceeding toward the ultimate security; his poems arise from disfortune, from the need Just to sing the song that's kept you/quiet/all this time. This book is a rare occurrence, marking not only a new intimacy with the world, but also a remembering of the determined motion of intimacy itself.

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