A Protocol for Touch Contributor(s): Merritt, Constance (Author), Cairns, Scott (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1574410830 ISBN-13: 9781574410839 Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Binding Type: Paperback Published: February 2000 Click for more in this series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 99054652 |
Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.01" W x 9.04" L (0.36 lbs) 86 pages |
Review Citations: Booklist 02/15/2000 pg. 1074 Foreword 02/01/2000 pg. 65 Booklist 02/15/2001 pg. 1102 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Constance Merritt is a poet to defeat categories, to oppose 'the tyranny of names' with a poetry that sets its own terms of encounter, its 'protocols of touch'--tender and austere, formal and intimate at once. Hers is a voice with many musics, sufficiently rich, nuanced and various to express, maintain poise and wrest meaning from the powerful cross-currents in which the heart is torn. I have seldom seen intelligence equal to such a scorching degree of intensity, or mastery of form so equal to passion's contradictory occasions. Merritt's prosodic range is prodigious--she moves in poetic forms as naturally as a body moves in its skin, even as her lines ring with the cadenced authority of a gifted and schooled ear. Here, in her words, the iambic ground bass is in its vital questioning mode: "The heart's insistent undersong: how live?/how live? How live?" this poetry serves no lesser necesssity than to ask that."--Eleanor Wilner Between us, how we wrestle over words |
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