The Violence of the Morning (Paperback)

This innovative new collection of poems by Cal Bedient is Nabokovian in its artifice, its fluency, and its scope - from Kant to Jaqueline Du Pres's Elgar, from Mother Goose to the Upanishads, from poems after the paintings of Corot, Monet, Matisse, and Klee to extended inquiries into the complexities of sexual and other relationships. The poems take up the task of asking what joy is available in the dark and terrifying waves of disease, broken love, and death. The persona voicings are varied, odd, and memorable; and the poems vary widely in their feel, their rhythm, their typology. Everywhere the language is outrageously wet and vivid - sliced orange language. Though the poems often take the form of couplets, quatrains, or some other repeatable structure, the results are daringly unexpected, irrational, compelling, astonishingly beautiful, and moving.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Contemporary Poetry
Release date:	June 2002
First published:	June 2002
Authors:	Calvin Bedient
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	104
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-2390-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8203-2390-X
Barcode:	9780820323909

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