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A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering: Poems

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Availability:In StockContributor:Dawn Lundy Martin, Carl Phillips (Foreword by)Series:Cave Canem Poetry PrizePublish date:2007-10-01Pages:72
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820329918ISBN-10:820329916UPC:9780820329918Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanAward:2007 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Poetry AwardSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCW8MXZC1B

Dawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking "I." It might best be described as poetry where, in the words of Juliana Spahr, "the lyric meets language"--both an investigation into the opacity of language and the expression of a passionate speaker who struggles to speak meaningfully.

Martin's poems bend the form into something new, seeking a way to approach the horrific and its effect on the psyche more fully than might be possible in the worn groove of the traditional lyric. Her formal inventiveness is balanced by a firm grounding in bodily experience and in the amazing capacity of language to expand itself in Martin's hands. She explodes any pretense at a world where words mean exactly what we want them to mean and never more nor less.

The poems are neither gentle nor easy, but they make a powerful case that neither gentleness nor easiness is appropriate in the attempt to contend with the trauma and violence that are an inescapable part of human history and human experience. Martin's book acknowledges the difficulty but not the impossibility of utterance in trauma's wake, and it ventures into the unimaginable at many levels, from the personal to the cultural.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820329918ISBN-10:820329916UPC:9780820329918Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanAward:2007 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Poetry AwardSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCW8MXZC1B
Dawn Lundy Martin is completing her PhD in English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is an instructor for the Language and Thinking program at Bard College. She is cofounder of the Third Wave Foundation, a national organization for young feminists, and coeditor with Vivien Labaton of "The Fire This Time."
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Awards

🏆 2007 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Poetry Award

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