Drift : poems / by Mary Kinzie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinzie, Mary.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 76 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Summary:

In a book of seductive poetic experiment, Mary Kinzie examines the stories we tell ourselves. Her short, muscular lines shatter and reassemble such curiosities as an engraving by Albrecht Durer and the portrait of a notorious suicide whose children develop a secret telepathy. In one of her many powerful longer pieces, she collects glittering shards from myriad versions of the Cinderella story, with its conflicting illustrations of maternal love. Her verse moves mysteriously between folklore and urban devastation, between white magic and the concoction of mood drugs in the modern laboratory. In each poem, Kinzie draws our attention to the chinks of light in the dark narratives that surround us, in a language animated by her sympathy and deep moral intelligence.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0375414630

OCLC:

49719281