All Aberration - Poems by Terese Svoboda (Paperback)

These are poems of family, of romantic hope and disappointment, of parenthood, and of grief that move from a childhood in Nebraska in which a father strides into a ripe wheat field; to the parks and parking lots of New York City, the interchangeable landscapes of suburban America, and the more sensual environment of secluded water; to little traveled parts of Africa and the Pacific where our customs and passions are refracted into shapes that are sometimes beautiful, sometimes grotesque.
Terese Svoboda writes of a world in which the reassuring simplicity remembered from childhood is difficult to recover. Outside of this vision of the past, all present life seems an aberration--an existence where violence can supplant love, families break apart, a child dies.
"All Aberration" received a starred review in "Publishers Weekly," a lead in "Contemporary Poetry 1986" and a Notable Book nomination by the American Library Association. It was written during stays at Yaddo, MacDowell and Ossabaw, and received the benefit of a Creative Artists Public Service grant in 1982. Its poems first appeared in such magazines as "Harper's," "The Nation," "Paris Review," and "Ploughshares."

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2009
First published:	September 2009
Authors:	Terese Svoboda
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-3460-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8203-3460-X
Barcode:	9780820334608

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