| World to World Contributor(s): Martínez, Valerie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816523754 ISBN-13: 9780816523757 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2004 Annotation: In her second collection of poems, Valerie Martinez builds on the artistic command of language that characterized her award-winning first volume, Absence, Luminescent. Taking on not only such familiar themes as love and loss, family and culture, but also the creative act of poetry itself, World to World crosses new boundaries to chart a mature poet's awareness of her own voice and style. Martinez explores the dynamic of creation/dissolution in original and intriguing ways. Here are the strange and provocative landscapes of the body and its disappearance... of matter and the absence of matter...of what is formed and what is falling from form. Throughout this compelling cycle, her deft manipulations of poetic structure disclose the boundaries where flesh, matter, and language become spirit, space, and "cataractical brilliance." In charting the relationships between time, form, body, language, and emptiness, World to World maps the territories where the visible and the invisible meet, offering unexpected discoveries for discerning readers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Poetry | Medieval |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2003021023 |
| Series: Camino del Sol |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.52" W x 9.02" (0.32 lbs) 85 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In her second collection of poems, Valerie Mart nez builds on the artistic command of language that characterized her award-winning first volume, Absence, Luminescent. Taking on not only such familiar themes as love and loss, family and culture, but also the creative act of poetry itself, World to World crosses new boundaries to chart a mature poet's awareness of her own voice and style. Mart nez explores the dynamic of creation/dissolution in original and intriguing ways. Here are the strange and provocative landscapes of the body and its disappearance . . . of matter and the absence of matter . . . of what is formed and what is falling from form. Throughout this compelling cycle, her deft manipulations of poetic structure disclose the boundaries where flesh, matter, and language become spirit, space, and "cataractical brilliance." In charting the relationships between time, form, body, language, and emptiness, World to World maps the territories where the visible and the invisible meet, offering unexpected discoveries for discerning readers. |