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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Winner of the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets. Rebecca Wee's award-winning debut is a moody and lyrical mosaic where the reader is presented multiple and simultaneous points of reality. As line after line gathers details from the world, Wee's poems build in momentum, give voice to the silenced, and explore the poet's impulse to create art that transcends suffering. Rebecca Wee is a professor of creative writing at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. A former editor of The Minnesota Review, she earned her MFA from George Mason University and has received several awards for her poetry. Pont des Arts She's bent in a posture of anguish or prayer in a spot of city filth. Head down, a stained knit cap with a few coins on the ground beside her, and her pliant child, a shadow. Someone veers past with a friend in a clamor of rings and scarves. A pretty child skips after them, scattering pigeons. The mothers miss how their daughters' eyes catch them-- the wary, openmouthed stares. A terrible knowledge passes between them, the bridge rippling under their feet, before the polished child rushes past but looks back at the one on the bridge in the heat-- the sunblown silent one whose hand has pulled back and flown up to smooth, for a moment, her heavy hair. The Philosopher A man rides a bicycle into town. He's forgotten his clothes, or maybe this is what he means to do. He rides carefully into the burning town. Apartments of old stone list, iron balconies, awnings, the window-grates blacken with heat. He rides by. His lip perspires, his eyes intent. In the hills behind him there is a glow that is not the burning. The Acropolis maybe. The Dome of the Rock. The man has a book under his arm. The pages are gilt-edged, the title has worn away. He has a shoulder-wound also, an old crescent scar. Now his chest sweats, now his abdomen. He is more agile than laughter. The road turns. A black sedan rounds the corner behind him. They are leaving town or they're trailing him. Synopsis:Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets. Synopsis:Poetry. In this winner of the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award, Rebecca Wee creates a poetic mosaic in which individual pieces and fragments both inform and distort the wholes (lines, images, poems, the book itself) which they create. Lyrical, moody, diffuse, these poems mine tension and explore the artist's impulse to make beautiful art out of terrible human suffering, to give voice to those not in a position to speak for themselves. These are emotional poems — each briskly draws our attention to reality and takes us on an arduous journey — Jane Miller, Judge of the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award Synopsis:Poetry. In this winner of the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award, Rebecca Wee creates a poetic mosaic in which individual pieces and fragments both inform and distort the "wholes" (lines, images, poems, the book itself) which they create. Lyrical, moody, diffuse, these poems mine tension and explore the artist's impulse to make beautiful art out of terrible human suffering, to give voice to those not in a position to speak for themselves. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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