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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Landau, Deborah
Titre(s) : The last usable hour [Texte imprimé] / Deborah Landau
Publication : Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2011
Description matérielle : ix, 69 p. ; 23 cm
Comprend : All else fails ; Blue dark ; Someone ; Welcome to the future.
Note(s) : Poetry
""Hooray for a writer who can weave presence and absence, longing and loss of longing,
into a tapestry of language as rich, honest, and compelling as this."--Naomi Shihab
Nye"Landau registers the intensities of the flesh: pleasure, desire, limitation, and,
ultimately, disappearance."-Mark DotyIt is "always nighttime" in Deborah Landau's
second collection-a series of linked lyric sequences, including insomniac epistolary
love poems to an elusive "someone." Here is a haunted singing voice, clear and spare,
alive with memory and desire, yet hounded by premonitions of a calamitous future.
The speaker in this "ghost book" is lucid and passionate, even as everything is disappearing.blame
the egg blame the fractured stones at the bottom of the mindblame his darkblue glare
and craggy mug the bulky king of trudge and steinhow I love a masculine in my parlor
his grizzly shout and weight one hundred drumsin this everywhere of blunt and soft
sinking I am the heavy hollow snaredthe days are spring the days are summer the days
are nothing and not dead yet<B>Deborah Landau</B> was educated at Stanford University,
Columbia University, and Brown University, where she was a Javits Fellow and received
a PhD in English and American literature. She co-hosts "Open Book" on Slate.com and
is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program. She lives in the Soho neighborhood
of New York City"--
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781556593345 (pbk.). - ISBN 1556593341 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42489935d
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