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The first part of this sharp, surprising book captures our inescapable but slippery physicality in the world, the second the breakdown of the cadaver of a 99-year-old woman--told from her perspective, rather jauntily.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Boruch displays a quietly gymnastic intellect in the examinations of art, the body, and the human condition.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention: she sees and considers with intensity.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Some books begin as a dare to the self,\" notes poet Marianne Boruch. Inspired by life-study drawing classes and direct work in a cadaver lab, Boruch's latest book looks at what the body holds, and examines living through bodies deceased.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarianne Boruch\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press), two volumes of essays, and a memoir. In 2013 she won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. 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Employing a masterly range of tone and form, Boruch makes a sometimes strange but always revealing investigation of world and self, history and memory, resistance and release. Here a woman levitates behind a door as her daughter badly bangs out Mozart. Here God is caught before the moment of creation, before knowledge, before \"the invention\/ of the question too, the way all\/ at heart are rhetorical, each leaf\/ suddenly wedded to its shade.\" It's here raucous boys on their bikes are told-through telepathy-don't go to this war. Here, that a Dutch still life is returned to the small chaos of its making. And Eve, in \"stained fascination,\" stares down the snake of the lost garden. The lyric impulse in these deeply interior poems stops time, even as the world, indifferent to its mystery, keeps happening.  Praise for Marianne Boruch: \"Her poems are complex rather than simple rooms ... they bring the world's strangeness, and their own, home to whatever reader is open to old mysteries, both in dreams and in the waking life they illuminate.\"-Philip Booth, The Georgia Review  \"Marianne Boruch's (work) has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention: She sees and considers with intensity. Her poems often give fresh examples of how rare and thrilling it can be to notice.\"-Robert Pinsky, Book World, The Washington Post  \"Every detail of image and syntax shines with multiplicity.\"-Donald Revell, The Ohio Review","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49644140003601,"sku":"GOR013611916","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0819569534.jpg?v=1750703669"},{"product_id":"bestiary-dark-book-marianne-boruch-9781556596377","title":"Bestiary Dark","description":"\u003ci\u003eIs the world finite?\u003c\/i\u003e Through place and time and the great expanse of Australia, Marianne Boruch ponders this, aided not just by wallabies and platypus, kangaroos and wombats, but by a cheeky Archangel who wanders in and out of her poems. The pertinent wisdom of an Indigenous Elder is here too, along with the continuing presence of Pliny the Elder, the Roman naturalist and historian who in 77 CE posed the question Boruch considers. Written following Boruch's Fulbright in Australia, and on the heels of the devastating fires that began after her departure, \u003ci\u003eBestiary Dark\u003c\/i\u003eis filled with strange and sweet details, beauty, and impending doom--the drought, fires, and floods that have grown unspeakable in scale. 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Weaving together close readings, biographical detail, and personal reflections, Boruch meditates on a universal fascination: how a poem comes to exist.\u003cbr\u003eA variety of imaginative approaches sets the essays apart from strictly academic poetry criticism. Boruch's ear for metaphor and attention to everyday experience enrich her readings of others' work. The unique connections she draws to the world beyond the literary one- including comparisons to painting and ceramics, the habits of bees, and the basic elements of musical composition- bring other ways of seeing and thinking to bear on the writing process itself. Instead of building her arguments and observations around a single thesis, Boruch borrows freely from other areas of human knowledge and experience, allowing essays to develop gradually and waywardly, as a poem is made.\u003cbr\u003ePoets, teachers of literature, and students of writing and literature, as well as the general reader, will appreciate the insights of \u003ci\u003ePoetry's Old Air\u003c\/i\u003e, as will the general reader, for whom these essays are entirely accessible.\u003cbr\u003eMarianne Boruch is the author of three acclaimed volumes of poetry: \u003ci\u003eMoss Burning, Descendant, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eView from the Gazebo\u003c\/i\u003e. 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If the opening image of a pool filled with cruelly dredged up roses bespeaks quiet assent ('I stood before them the way an animal\/ accepts sun'), the next poem turns immediately to progress (and hence progression) as a modern invention beyond the heaven-and-hell alternatives; finally, the poet concedes, 'I lose track of my transitions.' In fact, transition defines us. Here, a static painting gives way to 'between and among, ' a simple typeface never yields a perfect copy, and even in a medieval score, two exquisite quavers are connected by a slur. 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