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Balance as Belief
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Artikel-Nr:
9780801838941
Veröffentl:
1989
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.09.1989
Seiten:
108
Autor:
Wyatt Prunty
Gewicht:
170 g
Format:
229x152x6 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Wyatt Prunty is a professor of English at Sewanee: The University of the South and the founding director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He is the author of nine collections of poems, including The Lover's Guide to Trapping, and two critical works.
In Wyatt Prunty's new collection of poems, people either keep their balance or, doubting it, tip and fall. A small girl struggles to ride her bike among older children already 'stable as little gyros.' Ice-skating with friends, a boy suddenly drops from sight, and drowns. The poet of Paterson stands at the edge of his Jersey waterfall and knows that 'good balance is belief.' Poising and counterpoising themselves in settings at once fixed and erosive, the people in these poems move through 'one long revisionary river that curls back against itself, as if the only way to move ahead was by deflecting back.'