Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. In THIN GLOVES, Meadows asks: what can a work be? To write through source works such as Melville and Rabelais, through commentary by philologist M. A. Screech, moves questions of influence in ways "not doctored fields as our old judgment taught." Meadows examines "How we come to do things / the way we do creating detectives / and hunter cultures from spoor, / consummation from capture." Meadows teaches at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. Her books GROWING STILL, REPRESENTING ABSENCE, ITINERANT MEN, and THE 60'S AND 70'S: FROM "THE THEORY OF SUBJECTIVITY IN MOBY-DICK" are all available from SPD.
Synopsis
A new collection of poems by the author of Representing Absence.
Synopsis
Poetry. In THIN GLOVES, Meadows asks: what can a work be? To write through source works such as Melville and Rabelais, through commentary by philologist M. A. Screech, moves questions of influence in ways not doctored fields as our old judgment taught. Meadows examines How we come to do things / the way we do creating detectives / and hunter cultures from spoor, / consummation from capture. Meadows teaches at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. Her books GROWING STILL, REPRESENTING ABSENCE, ITINERANT MEN, and THE 60'S AND 70'S: FROM THE THEORY OF SUBJECTIVITY IN MOBY-DICK are all available from SPD.
Synopsis
In this new collection Deborah Meadows asks, “What can poetry be?” Using sources as diverse as Melville and Rabelais, Meadows—author of Representing Absence (Green Integer, 2004)—searches to discover new poetic realities.
About the Author
Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1956, Deborah Meadows' family were ironworkers. She now lives in Pasadena and teaches at California Polytechnic University in Pomona, California.