Synopses & Reviews
In her fifth book of poetry, Rosanna Warren explores the political and the personal through myth, history, elegy, and erotic lyric. Starting from a childhood memory of her mother, the poems contemplate wreckage and sorrow in family life, in Hurricane Katrina, and in the Trojan War, but also moments of eerie blessing.
from "Mediterranean"
There was something I wanted to say, at the age of twelve,
some question she hadn't answered,
and yesterday, so clearly seeing her pace before me
it rose again to the tip of my tongue, and the mystery was
not that she walked there, ten years after her death,
but that she vanished, and let twilight take her place-
Synopsis
from "Mediterranean There was something I wanted to say, at the age of twelve, some question she hadn't answered and yesterday, so clearly seeing her pace before m it rose again to the tip of my tongue, and the mystery wa not that she walked there, ten years after her death but that she vanished, and let twilight take her place"
Synopsis
"An important poet . . . beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets."--Harold Bloom
About the Author
Rosanna Warren, the author of four collections of poetry, has received awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters and has won the Lamont Poetry Prize. She teaches at the University of Chicago and lives in Chicago.