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Informationen zum Autor Carol Muske is the author of five collections of poetry and two novels, Dear Digby and Saving St. Germ . She is the recipient of numerous awards for her poetry, including Guggenheim, NEA, and Ingram-Merrill fellowships. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Klappentext An Octave Above Thunder presents a collection of poems spanning more than twenty years in the career of Carol Muske, who has won acclaim for work which marries sophisticated intelligence, emotional resonance, and technical craft. What most distinguishes Carol Muske's poetry is her awareness of the complicated web into which the personal and the political, the familial and the feminist, are woven. Filled with audible contemplation-invocation, echo, dreamsong, dirge-Muske's lyrical precision, assured touch, and exacting clarity make her one of the most talented poets of her generation. Zusammenfassung An Octave Above Thunder presents a collection of poems spanning more than twenty years in the career of Carol Muske! who has won acclaim for work which marries sophisticated intelligence! emotional resonance! and technical craft. What most distinguishes Carol Muske's poetry is her awareness of the complicated web into which the personal and the political! the familial and the feminist! are woven. Filled with audible contemplation?invocation! echo! dreamsong! dirge?Muske's lyrical precision! assured touch! and exacting clarity make her one of the most talented poets of her generation. Inhaltsverzeichnis An Octave Above Thunder New Poems Like This Sled An Octave Above Tunder Having Fled the Cité Universitaire (Paris, 1970) Miracles Blue Kashmir, '74 Benares At the School for the Gifted Pacemaker Blue Rose From Camouflage (1975) Rendezvous with a Harp Swansong Freezing to Death Child with Six Fingers Salad Days: Nebraska, 1964 Hyena From Skylight (1981) The Painter's Daughter The Invention of Cuisine Coral Sea, 1945 Ransom Golden Retriever Worry Poem Fireflies Chivalry Cheap Scent War Crimes Census Skylight Special Delivery to Curtis: The Future of the World From Wyndmere (1985) Blood Hour Wyndmere, Windemere The Way a Swan Turns China White Anna De-icing the Wings Surprise Afterwards A Fresco David We Drive Through Tyndall's Theory of Sight August, Los Angeles, Lullaby Sounding From Applause (1989) Dream After Care Box Pediatrics Skid Ideal Immunity Summer Cold Monk's House, Rodmell The Eulogy Ex-Embassy Applause From Red Trousseau (1993) To the Muse Lucifer Theories of Education Frog Pond Little L. A. Villanelle Field Trip In-Flight Flick Red Trousseau My Sister Not Painting, 1990 Prague: Two Journals (1970, 1990) M. Butterfly Unsent Letter Unsent Letter 2 Unsent Letter 4 Barra de Navidad: Envoi ...
