Ninety-five Nights of Listening - Poems

Malinda Markham's peoms are inspired in part by her fascination with Japanese language, art, and literature. Her reactions to and interpretations of that country's history, culture, and people are in these verses, echoing with the voices and silences of women across time. Markham imagines the experiences of many women: a geisha laments her past in "Geisha Considered as Making," as a mother laments for her daughter's future in "Yield to This." Markham is intrigued with how language tries but ultimately fails to hold memory in place. She grapples with the translation of words and feeling and shows how this failure also brings a searching for belief - a word that repeats throughout these poems - in a world that cannot allow it. Writes Cole Swenson, "Markham's language has the delicacy of the fine bones of the inner ear; it is, itself, a form of listening - to insects, birds, traffic, to the world. Her listening brings things into being, catching the nuances of change, from season to season, culture to culture, impression to language. This is a radiant collection."

A propos de l'auteur

Malinda Markham received her MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. She has been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. She teaches at Daito Bunka University in Tokyo.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Malinda Markham
• Edition: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 15.08.2002
• EAN: 9780618189281
• ISBN: 978-0-618-18928-1
• Pages: 80
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 16 mm
• Poids: 109 g
• Thème: Bakeless Prize
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Japan, Poetry, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY / Asian / Japanese, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, United States of America, USA, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Poetry anthologies (various poets), POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Caribbean & Latin American, POETRY: American / Asian American, Relating to African American / Black American people