Murder (a violet) / Raymond McDaniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDaniel, Raymond, 1969-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

National poetry series

The national poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press ; St. Paul, MN : Distributed Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2004.

Summary:

"Mysterious and enticing, "Murder (a violet)" is a brilliant narrative constructed out of 'fragments' that "describe by accretion.' The author asks us to 'Imagine an epic from which a minor character walks away. Epic-adjacent.' There are 'instructions for reading' and 'possible entrances, ' but this serial poem also provides room for the reader to enter and participate in the game played by its textual agents -- the assassin, the abbess, the janissaries, the vines, the trees. Flashes of action, some of them quite violent and "noir," alternate with evocative, lyrical passages reminiscent of Japanese landscape scrolls, and speeches concerning questions of guilt and redemption -- all of this composed, with a light touch and an ear sensitive to the weights and balances of words, into a musical structure that rewards re-reading." -- Anselm Hollo, National Poetry Series judge

ISBN:

1566891655

OCLC:

55597183