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 |
| Title | Temper |
| Author | Beth Bachmann |
| Series | Pitt Poetry Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2009-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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