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It Is If I Speak

It Is If I Speak

Wenderoth, Joe

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0819563900
ISBN13: 9780819563903
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Mar 17 2000
Pages: 83
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

New poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation.

In the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume of poetry, a herdsman, exhorted by Oedipus to speak the truth, replies It is if I speak that I will be destroyed.

Wenderoth's poetry is sparse, nihilistic -- and sometimes witty. Publishers Weekly wrote that, Like Stevens, Wenderoth has a passion for philosophical ideas; at the same time he follows Williams' dictum: no ideas but in things. The result is poetry that is intellectually charged but whose final fidelity is to the senses. His new book has the dignity of a sincere and ferocious despair. In the narratives of these poems, owing is all that really happens, and lives are shaped by the refusal to sink dumbly into tolerance of a spectacle.

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