Scaffolding : Poems / Eléna Rivera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivera, Eléna, author.

Series:

Princeton series of contemporary poets.

Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 133

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly reflecting life in New York City. In this, her third book of poetry, Eléna Rivera uses the English sonnet as a scaffold to explore daily events, observations, conversations, thoughts, words, and memories-and to reflect on the work of earlier poets and the relationship between life and literature.Guided by formal and syllabic constraints, the poems become in part an exploration of how form affects content and how other poets have approached the sonnet. The poems, which are very attentive to rhythm and sound, are often in conversation with historical, philosophical, artistic, and literary sources. But at the same time they engage directly with the present moment. Like the construction scaffolding that year after year goes up around buildings all over New York, these poems build on one another and change the way we see what was there before.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

July 14th From 80 La Salle - Sept. 1st

Sept. 5th - Oct. 24th

Oct. 27th (Revised Jan. 28th) - July 17th April 23rd

Acknowledgments

Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400883387

1400883385

OCLC:

1132658481