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The Seventy Prepositions - Poems (Paperback, New)
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The Seventy Prepositions - Poems (Paperback, New)
Series: New California Poetry, 10
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Carol Snow's award-winning poetry has been admired and celebrated
as 'work of difficult beauty' (Robert Hass), 'ever restless, ever
re-framing the frame of reference' ("Boston Review"), teaching us
'how brutally self-transforming a verbal action can be when
undertaken in good faith' (Jorie Graham). In this, her third
volume, Snow continues to mine the language to its most mysterious
depths and to explore the possibilities its meanings and mechanics
hold for definition, transformation, and emotional truth. These
poems place us before, and in, language - as we stand before, and
in, the world. "The Seventy Prepositions" comprises three suites of
poems. The first, 'Vocabulary Sentences', reflects on words and
reality by taking as a formal motif the sort of sentences used to
test vocabulary skills in elementary school. The poems of the
second suite, 'Vantage', gather loosely around questions of
perspective and perception. The closing suite finds its inspiration
in the Japanese dry-landscape gardens known as karesansui, such as
the famous rock garden at Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto. Here the poet
approaches composition as one faces a 'miniature Zen garden',
choosing and positioning words rather than stones, formally,
precisely, evocatively.
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