The Penultimate Suitor - Poems

In "The Penultimate Suitor" Mary Leader strips away comfortable layers of poetic self-protection to arrive at a position of acute emotional self-conflagration. Each poem turns upon and returns to the infuriating and glorious correlations between love and art. Learning to love, learning to make art, trying to make beauty, trying to be a beauty-all these efforts call for passionate explorations in the schools of art and love.

Summary

These poems rush the reader into the urgency of feelings - lovelorn, bawdy, grieving, pleading - but, never self-pitying. Each poem turns upon and returns to the infuriating and glorious correlations between love and art (learning to love, trying to make beauty or art, trying to be a beauty).

Product details

• Authors: Mary Leader
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2001
• EAN: 9780877457480
• ISBN: 978-0-87745-748-0
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 201 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Iowa Poetry Prize; Iowa Poetry Prize Series; Iowa Poetry Prize; The Iowa Poetry Prize Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama