The Mansion of Happiness

Informationen zum Autor ROBIN EKISS has received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for Emerging Women Writers. Her poems have appeared widely, in the Atlantic Monthly , Poetry , American Poetry Review , Ploughshares , New England Review , and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco, California. Klappentext Taking its title from one of the first board games in America, Robin Ekiss's meditations on childhood, history, and memory are a canary in the coal mine of imagination. From disembodied dolls to the dank Parisian catacombs, the gilded interior of a Faberge egg to the unfathomable edge of Niagara Falls, reading these poems is like peering into the perfectly still world of a diorama or the dark shine of a daguerreotype: an experience both uncanny and uncompromising. Zusammenfassung Robin Ekiss's meditations on memory and mortality are a canary in the coal mine of imagination. Reading her work is like peering into the perfectly still world of a diorama or daguerreotype: an experience both uncanny and uncompromising.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robin Ekiss
• Con la collaborazione di: Ted Genoways (Editore)
• Editore: The University of Georgia Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780820334080
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3408-0
• Pagine: 83
• Dimensioni: 133 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Serie: VQR Poetry; The VQR Poetry; VQR Poetry Series
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica