Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
15.04.2000
Verlag
Texas Tech University PressSeitenzahl
74
Maße (L/B/H)
23,6/16,2/1,4 cm
Gewicht
363 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-89672-431-0
Miriam Vermilya was a retired grade school teacher and a well known painter and writer in Greenville, Ohio, where she lived. When she died unexpectedly in January of 1999, the Greenville Writers Group, of which she was a founding member, collected these poems into what became the winning manuscript of the 1999 Walt McDonald First-Book Competition in Poetry. The poems sum up Vermilyas reflections on her life, love, and marriage; the deaths of friends and family members; and, most poignantly, her own aging and death. Her voice is calm, practical, even humorous; never morbid, always generous. By her example she encourages us to feel, while we have time, the beauty of our own joys and sorrows from ""Consider Socrates"". We all say we want it to be sudden: a lightning bolt to the brain, a stutter in the arteries, then sleep, or something like it our hands still clutching the rake or an atlas turned to a map of Afghanistan but wouldn't it be better to know a three-month warning would be nice; you'd want to burn those letters nestled in a shoe box on the closet shelf, finish up the pint of Seagrams hidden in the desks third drawer and trash the butt-sprung underwear a derelict would be ashamed to wear to any accident. Do not go gentle? Miriam Vermilyas poems are indeed gentle in their grappling with the great mysteries of love and death, but they are also tough, sharp, warm, and beautifully shaped. 'These poems leave us with our own terrible, sweet division, caught between regret that their author did not live to see this first book published and gratitude that she left it to nourish and delight us' - Jeff Gundy. '""Heartwood"" is full of poems that convey a fine sense of immediacy as if Miriam Vermilya were thinking the poem through as we are reading it. Her voice is sometimes witty, other times plangent, but always sharpened by a curiosity about what lies ahead. This is a rich collection, packed with fresh, stimulating lyrics' - Billy Collins.
Ein neues Kapitel für Ihre Bücher
Ein neues Kapitel für Ihre Bücher
Schenken Sie Ihren alten Schätzen ein zweites Leben: Einfach Barcode scannen, Versandetikett ausdrucken, Bücher verschicken und Thalia Geschenkkarte erhalten.
Jetzt verkaufenKundinnen und Kunden meinen
Verfassen Sie die erste Bewertung zu diesem Artikel
Helfen Sie anderen Kund*innen durch Ihre Meinung
Kurze Frage zu unserer Seite
Vielen Dank für Ihr Feedback
Wir nutzen Ihr Feedback, um unsere Produktseiten zu verbessern. Bitte haben Sie Verständnis, dass wir Ihnen keine Rückmeldung geben können. Falls Sie Kontakt mit uns aufnehmen möchten, können Sie sich aber gerne an unseren Kund*innenservice wenden.
zum Kundenservice