Mornings Like This - Found Poems

Zusatztext "Found poems are to their poet what no-fault insurance is to beneficiaries: payoffs waiting to happen where everyone wins and no one is blamed. Dillard culls about 40 such happy accidents from sources as diverse as a The American Boys Handy Book (1882) and the letters of Van Gogh. . . . the poet aims for a lucky, loaded symbolism that catapults the reader into an epiphany never imagined by the original authors." Informationen zum Autor Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, The Living  and  The Maytrees . She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Klappentext In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old--and often odd--books, and composes ironic poems--some serious, some light--on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new. Zusammenfassung "Found poems are to their poet what no-fault insurance is to beneficiaries: payoffs waiting to happen where everyone wins and no one is blamed. Dillard culls about 40 such happy accidents from sources as diverse as a The American Boys Handy Book (1882) and the letters of Van Gogh. . . . the poet aims for a lucky, loaded symbolism that catapults the reader into an epiphany never imagined by the original authors."  —  Publishers Weekly In Mornings Like This, beloved author Annie Dillard has given us a witty and moving collection of poems in a wholly original form, sure to charm her fans, both old and new. Extracting and rearranging sentences from old and odd books—From D.C. Beard's "The American Boys Handy Book" in 1882 to Van Gogh's letters to David Greyson's "The Countryman's Year" in 1936—Dillard has composed poems on poetry’s most heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. A unique, clever, and original collection, Dillard’s characteristic voice sounds throughout the pages.  ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Annie Dillard
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.04.1996
• EAN: 9780060927257
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092725-7
• Seiten: 96
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 235 mm x 8 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Poetry, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, United States of America, USA, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, POETRY: POETS: C TO I, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Women Authors, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Places, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Nature, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Classic fiction: general and literary, Poetry / Poets: C to I