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Red Trousseau: Poems

Red Trousseau: Poems

Muske, Carol

Paperback

Series: Penguin Poets

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0140586865
ISBN13: 9780140586862
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Sep 1 1993
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Red Trousseau is the latest work from one of America's greatest modern poets. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Carol Muske has discovered a way to work magic within the boundaries of technical achievement ... Her contemplation of experience is personal yet moves further, into the spiritual and philosophical; then it be longs not only to the poet but to all of us.

The poems in Red Trousseau use Los Angeles as a symbol for the seduction of appearances; reality crosses from the Wallace Stevens notion of the sun in Red Trousseau, hovering in its guise of impatient tribunal, to the sun in Unsent letter. in which a director reshoots a tarnished sunset so that the scene, infinite, rebegins In Muskes poems primary colors dominate, most notably red--the red of Salem burnings, the self-immolation of a political dissident in Prague, and Eros it self, moving like a red shadow over the body of love Stylistically brilliant and emotionally resonant, the poems in Red Trousseau display the work of a master poet at the peak of her craft.

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