If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000
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Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most inventive and admired poets. Since the mid-1970s, she has explored the ways in which language simultaneously captures and forfeits our experience. By turns elegiac, fierce, and sensuous, her musically-charged poems subvert distinctions between narrative coherence and fragmentary elision, between outward attention and inward response. Throughout, Lauterbach questions the hope for personal agency within proliferating fields of cultural and historical event. If In Time brings together selections from each of her first five collections, as well as an exhilarating group of new poems.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140589309
ISBN13:9780140589306
Release Date:April 2001
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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In Time
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Ann Lauterbach's work is a exquisite rarity in the subgroup of the subgroup of American poetry and poetics. That is, she's often (mis)aligned with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E folk, only because they perhaps come closest to comprehending and digesting her work. Great poetry takes hard work -- most of all, on the reader's part. All blurbs are mischief. Suffice it to say, if anyone's on the edge of making it new, it's Ann. And though "experimentalism" is often equated with nonsense/half-sense/absurd-sense, her work is none of them. At the heart of the hard is the divine. In time, perhaps a long time, it may be revealed that Ann is the heart.
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