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Overview"This collection of fifty-two poems from the author of Angel Fire and Anonymous Sins explores the annihilation of the time-bound ego, a liberating, sometimes terrifying experience for all who live within the """"fabulous beast"""" of history and nature. The poems explore the shifting, elusive point at which the inwardness of individual experience touches upon the larger consciousness of a species or an era, forming a connection with a """"self"""" that goes beyond subjectivity. The poems are grouped into four parts: """"Broken Connections,"""" """"Forbidden Testimonies,"""" """"The Child-Martyr"""" and """"A Posthumous Sketch,"""" are prose poems which, though technically different from the others, are concerned with the same theme, the relationship between the individual and a larger, all-inclusive whole. Neither fatalistic nor rebellious, the poems convey the idea that as long as we live in time we must struggle, and that is this struggle that determines our humanity." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joyce Carol OatesPublisher: Louisiana State University Press Imprint: Louisiana State University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.159kg ISBN: 9780807102855ISBN 10: 0807102857 Pages: 100 Publication Date: 30 March 1977 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsThe most prolific writer to win the National Book Award strikes out once again, this time with a volume of poetry. Like her prose, the poems are written in Oates' usual monotone of numbed anger; they blur together in what finally and ironically becomes a celebration of death - death of the body, death of the spirit, or the death of a relative - nothing else is as real to her. Perversely, she seems to long to join that driven duo - Plath and Sexton - without being able to match their inspired fire. She is not transformed, but merely stuck in a claustrophobic subjectivity, the main content of which is a ceaseless searching for oblivion: a search which eventually becomes wearisome to the reader, for why go on writing if such mountainous outpourings provide no surcease for the soul? Worst of all, there is very little poetry in these fatigued compilations of sentiment ( We clasped hands, we embraced, we parted ), rhetorical questions and the general vacuity ( buoy, space, oblivion appear everywhere), evoked principally by parallelism and repetition ( lost the paragraphing of the lives/lost the words that - / the words that - ; or It is not pain, not even the surprise of pain ). Even the occasional successful poem seems familiar and tired. A poet who believes it is always the same day will have, after the first day, nothing left to say. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationJoyce Carol Oates is the several books, including The Poisoned Kiss, The Seduction and Other Stories, and The Assassins. Her novel Them won the National Book Award in 1970, and her collection of short stories, Lovely, Dark, Deep, was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Oates has also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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