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Informationen zum Autor Katrina Roberts is associate professor of English/creative writing and Garrett Fellow in the Humanities at Whitman College. She is the author of How Late Desire Looks , which won the Peregrine Smith Prize in poetry. She lives with her husband and two sons in Walla Walla, Washington. Klappentext The Quick is a book of essences. Katrina Roberts's large-spirited and exhilarating poetry is at once celebratory and elegiac, lyric and narrative, striving to divine what's at the quick of this fleeting existence we share. Anchored in many ways by the long poem "Cantata," which chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her son, the book turns and turns its kaleidoscopic lens, settling now on origins and creation myths, now on Greek or Welsh gods, now on a painting by Vermeer or on an article from the daily news, all slipping together to illuminate our coming to consciousness, our coming to "be." The poems ask how one might reconcile one's simple joys with the world's larger concerns. An inquiry of this depth cannot fail to encounter grief, but it is a grief tempered and transcended by the acceptance of ongoing life, as well as a consistently outward-focused eye and a passion for language. Sparked by Roberts's sharp imagery and daring cadences, this is a fresh and savvy collection, informed by science, myth, music, philosophy, and etymology, all braided within a sinuous narrative line that runs from sorrow to rich celebration. Zusammenfassung Anchored by the long poem "Cantata," which chronicles the author's pregnancy and the birth of her son, this book asks how one might reconcile one's simple joys with the world's larger concerns. Inhaltsverzeichnis I Estuary Self-Portrait as Flint, Dust, an Egg-Blue Truck, Memory of Arson & Signs On Wanting a Child Sfumato Bright Cell Scintilla Dizzy with the Glow of What Might Dehisce Dryope to Amphissos Diplopia Woman Holding a Balance Auralia Coda Malleus, Incus, Stapes Missive Furculae One or Two Things Sacred to Sorrow II Marina Captive of the Mineral World Residuum University Peepwillow Cynosure Signs of Life Anima Plumed Wings, Apposing Thumbs & Other Household Mutations Midwinter Saturnism Omphalocele Anamnesis Bird of Consequence Occurrence News Ceridwen to Taliesin III Cantata Prelude I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X Postlude: Madrigal IV Bread Firstborn Birthday Grace Absentia Partita Thieves Patia Grasp Integer Io to Zeus Canticle Hypothetica The Will: Mary Catherine Speaks Dockside Clepsydra Vision Appoggiatura Foxfire Notes Acknowledgments About the Poet ...
