Placebo Effects - Poems

"This collection of beguiling poems . . . takes as its avenue into experience the palpable, quotidian objects of the intimate environment. A barometer, an arrangement of flowers, a vase, a carpet, a pyramid of oranges in a city marketplace are seen and then entered as one might enter the action of a film. . . . There is something of the child's wondrous way of seeing the world that electrifies." Boston Globe "Jeanne Beaumont's poems are smart and full of feeling, heartbreakingly in love with the snares and clarities of the language she writes in, and lit throughout by a kind of wry wonder." William Matthews "How rare to discover so sly and disarming, so luminous and compelling a debut." David St. John"

About the author

Jeanne Marie Beaumont lives in New York City. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, Antioch Review, and Boulevard.

Summary

Winner of the l996 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by William Matthews.

Product details

• Authors: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1999
• EAN: 9780393318913
• ISBN: 978-0-393-31891-3
• No. of pages: 98
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 132 g
• Series: National Poetry Series Books (; National Poetry Series Books (
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama