Temper by Beth Bachmann

Temper by Beth Bachmann

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Zusammenfassung

Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Lynn Emanuel Winner of the 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award The elegies in Temper interrogate the way grief leaves us confrontational, in a state of fracture.

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Temper by Beth Bachmann

Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament. The poems are mercilessly recursive, placing pressure on the lyric as a mode of both the elegiac and the ecstatic. The result is an enforced silence, urgent with grief.
Temper is an unforgettable first bookEmbodied in a poetry that quakes with sorrow one moment and is steely with forensic detail the next, Temper's account of a murder encompasses the polarities of flesh and spirit, love and horror. What is most compelling is the way Bachmann presides over the drama with a courage and restraint that manifest themselves as the beauty of these poems. - Lynn Emanuel ""Tempered by silence and grappling for meaning beyond story, beyond what is spoken or known, these poems recall absences everywhere - the losses by which we are plagued, what we must endure."" - Natasha Trethewey ""Restraint and abandon ride side-by-side through these fiercely distilled poems - again and again they bear reluctant witness to the shadows hovering around the edges of every moment. A beautiful unease suffuses these poems - they make me aware I'm alive, and certain of nothing. A stunning debut."" - Nick Flynn
Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two prior books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Do Not Rise, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice
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ISBN 13 9780822960409
ISBN 10 0822960400
Titel Temper
Autor Beth Bachmann
Serie Pitt Poetry Series
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2009-08-31
Seitenanzahl 80
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