Incontinence

The poems collectively build up a novelistic world even as they individually retain all the intensity of focus associated with lyricism. Hahn's fevered book of human emotions becomes a powerful rumination on love, aging, and mutability in general.

About the author

Susan Hahn is the editor of TriQuarterly magazine and coeditor of TriQuarterly Books. She is the author of three books of poems: Harriet Rubin's Mother's Wooden Hand; Incontinence, which won the Society of Midland Authors poetry award; and Confession, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Summary

A sequence of poems following the progress of a central character's passionate romance. Hahn's book of human emotions becomes a rumination on love, ageing, and mutability in general.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Hahn, Susan Firestone Hahn, Hahn Susan
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.1993
• EAN: 9780226312729
• ISBN: 978-0-226-31272-9
• No. of pages: 98
• Dimensions: 14 mm x 22 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 170 g
• Series: Phoenix Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets