The Undertow
The Undertow
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Summary
“The Undertow” reflects my interaction with the seas from my childhood until maturity. The book poses questions about the conservation of the oceans and the currents, the changing weather, and our attempts at restoration.
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The Undertow by Emily Bilman
In Emily Bilman’s The Undertow, the reader is taken on an infinite voyage through memories of love and loss. Gustave Flaubert wrote: Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears. To be caught up in the under-currents of the sea is to be driven deeper than one might feel comfortable and to risk going beyond what the conscious mind can bear and control. We are told that life first began in the sea and perhaps we are involved in its darkness shot through with sudden gleams of light like the glow of precious pearls. Emily Bilman has found that the sonnet form has the power to distil the deepest human experiences. Many of the poems in this book are sonnets alternating between the Petrarchan and the Shakespearean traditions. The small box of the sonnet becomes a stage in which the inner conflicts arising out of life and love are dramatised and resolved. To read The Undertow is to undertake an exhilarating poetic voyage and discover the poet’s quest for light.
Emily Bilman is widely a published author of literary essays and poetry. Her dissertation, The Psychodynamics of Poetry was published by Lambert Academic in 2010 and Modern Ekphrasis by Peter Lang in 2013. A Woman by A Well (2015), Resilience (2015), The Threshold of Broken Waters (2018) and Apperception (2020) were published by Matador, UK. She is widely anthologized and has recently won the Polaris Contest which will send her sonnet Pathfinder to the moon.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781805140153 |
| ISBN 10 | 1805140159 |
| Title | The Undertow |
| Author | Emily Bilman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Troubador Publishing |
| Year published | 2023-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |