Tenderness shore / Meredith Stricker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stricker, Meredith.

Series:

National poetry series

The national poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Meredith Stricker's Tenderness Shore is a fierce and luminous collection of poetry that explores the iconography of the Muse as a wilderness retreat for the imagination. Opening with a series of exchanges with Sappho -- Plato's "tenth muse" -- in letters, shopping lists, postcards, choreography, and maps, then delving into the landscape of Lesbos using a lexicon to track the roots and impulses of the lyric, the collection closes with encounters among a chorus of muses: Sappho, Camus, Piaf, and birds speaking in Hungarian.

Tenderness Shore affirms that the Muse, or the human capacity to muse, can be found in any part of life -- nature, photographs, art, memory -- that resists being measured in terms of profit and loss.

ISBN:

0807128767

0807128775

OCLC:

51266015