The Unknowing Muse
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1939929156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 78 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is also co-translator (with Matilda Bruckner and Laurie Shepard) of Songs of the Women Troubadours (Routledge, 2000). She is author of the poetry collections THE UNKOWING MUSE (Dos Madres Press, 2014), ALICE AGES AND AGES (BlazeVOX Books, 2010) and CLEOPATRA HAUNTS THE HUDSON (Spuyten Duyvil, 2007), a poetry chapbook, Mrs. Bliss and the Paper Spouses (Pudding House, 2007), and a book-length lyric essay, The
--Ricardo NirenbergSarah White is all that a good poet should be- smart, funny, daring. You go with her through poems that assume their own heft and place on the page- I can step next door/to see Vesuvian flames/and hear the roar , confident she ll not leave you stranded, even as she quips, I tip to one side when I walk . --Mervyn TaylorWe can tell, from these lines and the ones in between, how much our poet loves language, over and beside all other loves in her life; and we can tell that sh! she s having an affair with Occitan. Somehow I find it entirely justified, for just as those modern Occitan poets are avatars of the medieval troubadours and their amor de lonh, Sarah White is a paradigm of the modern trobairitz. --Ricardo Nirenberg . Following her, we end up in unexpected places, in the graveyard where Baudelaire is buried, or in Purgatory itself, . an island in the Southern Sea, where sin can be handled, de
Somehow I find it entirely justified, for just as those modern Occitan poets are avatars of the medieval troubadours and their amor de lonh, Sarah White is a paradigm of the modern trobairitz." Ricardo Nirenberg. You go with her through poems that assume their own heft and place on the page 'I can step next door / to see Vesuvian flames / and hear the roar,' confident she'll not leave you stranded, even as she quips, 'I tip to one side when I walk.'" Mervyn Taylor "We can tell, from these lines and the ones in between, how much our poet loves language, over and beside all other loves in her life; and we can tell that sh! she's having an affair with Occitan. Poetry. She redefines the familiar, giving new aspects to themes as commonplace as love and motherhood, standing beside her son in a courthouse, or advising her children that, as a poet, she has other work to do. "Sarah White is all that a good poet should be smart, funny, daring. Following her, we end up in unexpected places, in the graveyard where Baudelaire is buried, or in Purgatory itself, an island in the Southern Sea, where sin can be handled, deftly