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The Violence of the Morning: Poems

The Violence of the Morning: Poems

Bedient, Cal

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 082032390X
ISBN13: 9780820323909
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Jun 10 2002
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This innovative new collection of poems by Cal Bedient is Nabokovian in its artifice, its fluency, and its scope--from Kant to Jaqueline Du Pres's Elgar, from Mother Goose to the Upanishads, from poems after the paintings of Corot, Monet, Matisse, and Klee to extended inquiries into the complexities of sexual and other relationships. The poems take up the task of asking what joy is available in the dark and terrifying waves of disease, broken love, and death. The persona voicings are varied, odd, and memorable; and the poems vary widely in their feel, their rhythm, their typology. Everywhere the language is outrageously wet and vivid--sliced orange language. Though the poems often take the form of couplets, quatrains, or some other repeatable structure, the results are daringly unexpected, irrational, compelling, astonishingly beautiful, and moving.

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