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Reactor (Paperback)
Judith Vollmer, Ronald Wallace
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R415
Discovery Miles 4 150
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"Reactor "gives voice to beloved and ruined American landscapes
through extended meditations of an urban mystical wanderer.
Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick's previous books,
beginning with The Story of Glass (1977), and to them are added 36
new poems called Under the Carpathians. His work—known for
working class and Catholic themes—probes labor and social
history, post-World War II America, Eastern European identity,
Eastern Rite Catholicism, and Russian icons and fine art and
especially Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.
Traversing time, cities, and voices, The Apollonia Poems finds its
central aesthetic in place: physical and locational, perceptual and
imagined. Judith Vollmer's poet-wanderer explores the layered
terrains of urban environments from Pittsburgh to the Mediterranean
to the Carpathians. Employing narratives and lyrics, songs and
reports, and a short verse-play in three voices, Vollmer's
meditations are by turns elegiac and celebratory, colloquial and
lyrical.
Judith Vollmer's sixth collection explores human voices and
geographies, stories and mysteries, and natural phenomena inside
urban spaces. Her lyrical narratives, character portraits,
locational investigations, and choral fragments often emerge from
physical objects and from green and/or ruined cityscapes. Vollmer's
home city, Pittsburgh, and its sister-locations within Italy and
Poland, undergird her attention to orientation and perception at
work in her poems' acutely visual studies. Featuring twenty-one new
and fifty-seven selected poems from her earlier volumes-The
Apollonia Poems, The Water Books, Reactor, The Door Open to the
Fire, and Level Green-The Sound Boat reveals Vollmer's devotion to
examining place and space to uncover poetry that touches emotions
related to wandering physical and emotional realms: some familial
and deeply personal, some unknowable. Old city, I've come East for
your long day and endless night: down in the street, between the
turtle fountain and the iron head the party shouts and sings,
sweats and snakes, swells into a throb or momentum of sound.
-Excerpt from "The Sound Boat"
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