Why, why not / Martha Ronk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ronk, Martha Clare.

Series:

New California poetry ; v. 8.

New California poetry ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (101 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Why/Why Not presents a speaker caught in quandaries created by changing perspectives, fervors, and locales. Why do we act one way here and another there; why can't a mind stay made up; why do we hate and love at the same time; why does memory fade or insist; why does the ordinary seem so uncanny? These questions are captured in lines that collide and merge, in irreverent and offhand jibes, and in plaintive repetitions.Why/Why Not moves across a vivid terrain-the stage of Hamlet, Phillip Marlowe's Los Angeles, Prague, paintings and gardens-to push through a tangle of ways to make sense of the world. Martha Ronk's poetic language is that of the everyday slightly skewed, as if pieces of an ordinary sentence were missing. Ronk's poems use the repetitive and the banal to explore ways in which language is intertwined with thought and experience.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

1. Perplexities

2. Why Knowing Is

3. Why/Why Not

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612762895

9781282762893

1282762893

9780520937116

0520937112

OCLC:

773564888