Calle Florista

Informationen zum Autor Connie Voisine is professor of English at New Mexico State University. She is the author of three previous books of poems, most recently, Calle Florista , also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Connie Voisine's third book of poems, "Calle Florista," centers on the border between the US and Mexico and celebrates the stunning, if severe, desert landscape. Southern New Mexico's proximity to Mexico (indeed, it was "still" a part of Mexico until 167 years ago) is also an occasion for Voisine to explore themes of splitting and friction in both human and political contexts. Through a combination of directness and excision, the poems in this book oscillate between describing complex, private sensibilities, on the one hand, and, on the other, cracking the private self open (and vulnerable) to the wider world. The focus on the Mexico-US border is also a way for Voisine to experiment with the speaking voice in the poems: whose space is this border, she asks, and what voice can properly tell the story of this place?

Product details

• Authors: Connie Voisine, Voisine Connie
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780226295329
• ISBN: 978-0-226-29532-9
• No. of pages: 88
• Series: Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets (CHUP)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets