Swan Electric - Poems (Hardcover, 1st ed)

"A poet of obvious gifts and power and ambition, unsparing and brilliant."—W. S. Merwin

In searching, musical poems, April Bernard explores a range of emotionally complex subjects and forms, in a voice sardonic, playful, and passionate. Her "disheveled sonnets" are experiments of self-interrogation. Her memoir-sequence, "The Song of Yes and No," ruefully eulogizes being young, bohemian, and in love in New York's East Village in the 1980s. Then Bernard moves to darker poems of solitude and silence. The final section, "Eidetica," is a funny and frightening sequence of hallucinations. The poet confronts the specters that haunt her imagination—a crow, Jimmy Stewart, William Blake, a menacing swan. In this stunning collection, Bernard's ever-idiosyncratic vision combines sternness, sorrow, and flights of fancy, in her struggle to find moral footing as poet and human being.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2002
Authors:	April Bernard
Dimensions:	250 x 200 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	96
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-05114-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-393-05114-5
Barcode:	9780393051148

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