My Secret Boat - A Notebook of Prose and Poems (Paperback)

A Notebook of Prose and Poems

When Fictions from the Self, Michael Burkard's previous collection of poetry was published, The Bloomsbury Review noted: "A book such as this can be a resonant reminder of what it is like to esteem poetry over all other human speech."

In this new book Burkard continues his associative method of allowing the reader to follow his movement of dream and memory, psychology and color. Written as a notebook, My Secret Boat is a collage of stories, poems, dreams, and sketches. Among Burkard's subjects are childhood, the sea, family, alcoholism, love. We follow the narrator on a journey as he explores the images, characters, and incidents from his past. Identities merge and even become contrary.

In lyrical tones in which no one moment is more serious or less comic than another, presences and secrets are celebrated and illuminated by both animate and inanimate worlds. The sun, the moon, a brook, blackbirds, lanterns, boats have information or gifts or sources for us. Finally, each affirms the anonymous powers of the inner life.

"Burkard's carefully reduced stock of images is powerful: the sea, a laterns, snow, rain and ghosts. . . . The speaker lends a voluminous consciousness to us that sympathetic readers will not soon forget."—Publishers Weekly

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1992
First published:	August 1991
Authors:	Michael Burkard
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-30748-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-393-30748-4
Barcode:	9780393307481

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