Muse / Susan Aizenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aizenberg, Susan.

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xii, 63 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale [Ill.] : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois Unviversity Press, [2002]

Summary:

Muse, the first full-length collection from poet Susan Aizenberg, brings together poems of personal history, elegy, and the complex lives of artists, writers, and "ordinary" people, in an exploration of the relationship between art and life, esthetics and ethics. She is sharp-eyed in purpose, trying to understand "what love is" in a continual shifting between loss and knowledge. While "there is no other world than this one"&for Aizenberg, nevertheless she finds a world of affirmation. Aizenberg sings elegant blues, keeps a perfect balance between elaboration and restraint with formal skill that is both impressive and consoling, reminding us that poetry is a form of intelligence in which music creates a world full of mystery and depth.

Contents:

White Cat and Notebook: A Still Life 3

Contrast, Composition 9

Nights Mutable as Water Revise Themselves into the Shape of Our Extravagant Past 11

What It Is 12

Cortland, 1970 14

Twenty-Five Years from Anywhere Like That 15

Kiss 16

For the Dark Girl 18

Triptych: For Michael 19

In the Frame 22

Far Rockaway 23

Debut: Late Lines for a Thirtieth Birthday 25

The Uses of Metaphor 27

Grand Street 28

Against Romance 30

Muse 31

Three Poems for Judi 37

The Life You Really Have 39

Memory from Childhood 41

Luminous Child 42

Flying West 43

Art 45

Ode for My Son at Seventeen 47

Half-Light: No Feeling 48

Sometimes When You're Asleep 49

Heat 51

Georgic on Waking 53

L'Heure Bleue 54

Grace 56

Florigraphy 58

Prayer 60.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 63).

ISBN:

0809324431

OCLC:

48098401