Sylph by Abigail Cloud

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In her first collection of poems, Abigail Cloud draws inspiration from nineteenth-century European Romantic ballets, which often portrayed scorned females as mystical spirits such as sylphs. Sylph filters our world through the lenses of dance, folklore, and history, revealing our contemporary lives to be dreamlike and prismatic.

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Sylph by Abigail Cloud

In her first collection of poems, Abigail Cloud draws inspiration from nineteenth-century European Romantic ballets, which often portrayed scorned females as mystical spirits such as sylphs. Sylph filters our world through the lenses of dance, folklore, and history, revealing our contemporary lives to be dreamlike and prismatic.
Poems by Abigail Cloud have appeared widely in journals such as Black Warrior Review, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, The Gettysburg Review, and Quarterly West. Cloud is on the faculty at Bowling Green State University, where she is editor-in-chief of Mid-American Review.
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ISBN 13 9780807156933
ISBN 10 0807156930
Title Sylph
Author Abigail Cloud
Series Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Louisiana State University Press
Year published 2014-04-30
Number of pages 88
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