Nerve Storm - Penguin Poets - Amy Gerstler - Knjige - Penguin Random House Australia - 9780140587036 - 1. novembra 1993
Če se naslovnica in naslov ne ujemata, je naslov pravilen

Amy Gerstler
Nerve Storm - Penguin Poets Special edition

Cena
€ 26,99

Naročeno iz oddaljenega skladišča

Predvidena dobava 10. - 24. nov
Božična darila lahko vrnete do 31. januarja
Prejemajte obvestila o novih izdajah izvajalca Amy Gerstler

Kaj pravijo naše stranke:

14-dnevna politika vračila v skladu z evropsko zakonodajo o varstvu potrošnikov
Najvišja ocena na Trustpilot
Dodaj na svoj seznam želja iMusic

Not rated yet

In her first collection since Bitter Angel , which won the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Gerstler continues her intense, and often savage, pursuit of redemption through suffering. At times pain is caused by illness (scarlet fever, tuberculosis), at times by man's inhumanity to man (the Holocaust; bodies are recovered from an unspecified explosion). Past and present blur as one speaker is followed through various reincarnations in a single poem. A cow lazily chewing grass insists that "Prior to this promotion/ I was the town drunk." Her best poems are relentless, soul-searching, surreal and wonderfully inexplicable. But less than half this volume displays vintage Gerstler. At their weakest, her poems are formulaic and contrived, as when she catalogues matriarchal saints for modern times ("Our lady of organ transplants./ Our lady of the power lunch"). A five-page poem about insect collecting (possibly a "found" poem lifted from various manuals) is pointless. Most damaging is her ability to trivialize the same themes she presents so potently elsewhere, as when the speaker of one poem gives instructions on survival to a potentially homeless person. Whether a poem is sympathizing or mocking, the meter and the poet's distanced gaze remain the same, frequently leaving readers uncertain of the poet's intentions.

112 pages

Medij Knjige     Paperback Book   (Knjiga z mehkimi platnicami in lepljenim hrbtom)
Izdano 1. novembra 1993
ISBN13 9780140587036
Založniki Penguin Random House Australia
Strani 112
Dimenzije 139 × 213 × 8 mm   ·   119 g
Jezik Angleščina  

Več od Amy Gerstler

Prikaži vse

Več od istega **izdajatelja**

Ogled vseh Amy Gerstler