Vertical elegies 5 : the section : sonnets / by Sam Truitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Truitt, Sam, 1960-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Contemporary poetry series (University of Georgia Press)

The contemporary poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sonnets, American.

Penn Provenance:

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

Truitt, Sam, 1960- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

69 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Vertical elegies five

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2003]

Summary:

Imagine moving at the speed of thought through a sense-engulfing place -- a city street, carnival, airport lobby ... or your life. You have no time to process these sounds, sights, smells, and other psycho-sensory bulges -- but no way either to keep them from flooding the inner world you're forever on the verge of sorting out. That, in part, is the experience of reading these 69 sonnets, each of them a multidimensional, kaleidoscopic crossroad where organic form, awareness, memory/history, intellect, and the human heart merge into specificity, like light at the end of a tunnel.

The Boston Review has said this of Truitt's poetry: "Cunning formal maneuverings provide the distance and displacement needed to rattle the teeth of syntax and alter the current beat. As a reader, one gets caught up in the frenzy. There is the pleasure of verbal abandon and the reassurance of visual control. There is the perpetually keyed-up anticipation of anything-could-happen-here." And it does.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

ISBN:

082032504X

OCLC:

50447963