Echolalia : poems / by Deborah Bernhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernhardt, Deborah, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

77 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York City : Four Way Books ; Lebanon, NH : Distributed by University Press of New England, [2006]

Summary:

"The language and cadence--fractured, whizzing--of our most wired new century lives in [her poems] though Bernhardt's subjects are ancient: love and family, ache and hope, remorse and grief worked out in memory and right now, that dazzling look-at-this. And I did. I kept coming back to look at and through these poems, both solaced and unnerved by their energy and wit and darkness, their patience--even given their great restlessness--the meticulous care in which they were made, the ghosts of Bishop, Dickinson, Cummings, Hopkins here by name and spirit, how be they transformed, flooded, rekindled, all so oddly cherished. Welcome this poet, this very original eye and ear and heart." --Marianne Boruch

Contents:

Text

Tiding

Her Lost Draft

Landscaping

Happy Living! A Guidebook for Brides

Latin Roots Sui and Cidium

The herafter Has Been modified as Follows

The Kiss

Fractal

looking for Delights

There Is no Towards

What Lisa Thinks

Death and Saucepan

Sleep Patters

Replacing a Threshold

End of Spell

The Urge to Say

The Only Universal Tongue

Sometimes a Septum Almost Deviates

Lethal

Temple Grandin's Squeeze Machine

Cancer Has Not Seeded

Diary

Made out of Sixes

To Lisa: We Descend from Worried Mothers

Sonnets after Joel Meyerowitx Asks Our Question

Reconstruction with Original Fragments

Apology Is Red up Like This: Fax to E.E. Cummings.

Notes:

"Winner of the 2004 Four Way Books Intro Prize; selected by Marianne Bouruch"--publisher's Web site.

ISBN:

1884800726

OCLC:

68446501