The Properties of Breath
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The Properties of Breath by Jean Hanff Korelitz
'Embodied in The Properties of Breath is an unforced sense of how the speaking voice can be conveyed as music - an ear for the properties of language, for pause, for cadence, and syntactical decorum, such as constitute the mark of the true, the born poet. This disturbance is finally inseparable from the properties that underlie it, an acute, even sardonic eye for the telling detail. counterbalanced by a remarkable depth and generosity of feeling, a readiness to listen for what is submerged, what does not come easily to the surface, what may indeed never be entirely uncovered. A strain of demonic intensity hints at the presence of Sylvia Plath, the feeling and the cadence are both the poet's own.' - Amy Clampitt
Embodied in The Properties of Breath is an unforced sense of how the speaking voice can be conveyed as music - an ear for the properties of language, for pause, for cadence, and syntactical decorum, such as constitute the mark of the true, the born poetThis disturbance is finally inseparable from the properties that underlie it, an acute, even sardonic eye for the telling detail. counterbalanced by a remarkable depth and generosity of feeling, a readiness to listen for what is submerged, what does not come easily to the surface, what may indeed never be entirely uncovered. A strain of demonic intensity hints at the presence of Sylvia Plath, the feeling and the cadence are both the poet's own. -- Amy Clampitt
Jean Hanff Korelitz is an outstanding young American poet whose work has been published in many magazines in Britain and Ireland. Born in New York in 1961, she graduated from Dartmouth College in 1983, and from Clare College, Cambridge, in 1985, and then lived in Ireland for a year. She now lives in New York with her husband, the poet Paul Muldoon. The Properties of Breath is her first book of poems.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852240691 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852240695 |
| Title | The Properties of Breath |
| Author | Jean Hanff Korelitz |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1988-10-20 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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