Forceps (eBook)

Poems about the Birth of the Self

Wendy Hoffman (Autor)

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2016
96 Seiten
Karnac Books (Verlag)
9781782415060 (ISBN)

Infos

The search for my true past came in distinct waves. This collection of poems includes some from the long period when I knew something was drastically wrong but didn't consciously know what that was and some from the breakthrough when I discovered my never-bloomed self. The poems cover the outskirts of my awakening, my plowing through and arrival in the middle of awareness. When dissociated memories and emotions exploded inside, eventually they filtered into a poem. The horror transmuted itself. These poems are that record.I have regained a real, not imposed, self.

Rezensionen

'Like the forceps in the title of Wendy Hoffman's collection, these tough and unrelenting poems grasp life's betrayals and losses, but as the poet says, "Whatever happened will be washed away / whatever happened will be gone." And she might have been talking about this book when she said in a poem about shopping in a Turkish fruit and vegetable market, "You don't have to dig to the bottom / for the good ones."'--Faye Moskowitz, Professor of English and Creative Writing, George Washington University'Wendy Hoffman's poems dive through fathoms of unutterable grief. The grief is specific to the poet but also part and parcel of our being mortal. She is a poet of the body - its frailties and debilities but also its tenacity. Her poems throb with this tenacity as she pushes words to do their utmost, achieving, at times, a primordial eloquence.'--Baron Wormser, Poet Laureate of Maine, 2000-2005

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.3.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The Karnac Library
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• ISBN-13: 9781782415060 / 9781782415060