Carolyn Martin

Broschiertes Buch

A Penchant for Masquerades

Beschreibung

From the universal to the personal, the formal to the experimental, Carolyn Martin's fourth poetry collection, A Penchant for Masquerades, takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships. Martin time-travels with Neanderthals, Lucy, and Big Foot to 9/11 to the future collapse of a holographic universe. She mines scientific discoveries, nursery rhymes, biblical characters, and the works of Issa, Horace, Yeats, Frost, Williams, Szymborska, and Collins in poems that are both playful and thought-provoking. Since she believes reincarnation is a distinct possibility, she suggests that death need not be taken too seriously ("Re-Entry Interview," "A Case for Sudden Death"). She riffs on an Issa haiku ("Thoughts on a Translation"), sits down to dinner with Horace ("Notes from a Water Drinker"), and promises literary revenge on a reviewer who negatively critiques this collection ("To the Reviewer Who Missed Too Much"). Martin's forms run the gamut from sonnets, haiku, and pantoums to free verse, found poetry, and paratactic poems whose stanzas can be read in any order. A lover of language, she builds poems based on one word ("Phonaethetics," "Disambiguation," "Stirring"), and delights in re-stitching the words of others in surprising ways ("Variations on Final Words," "10 Variations on the 50 Most Quoted Lines of Poetry," "90+ Titles Appropriated from Poetry 180 Hosted by Billy Collins"). A lover of all things poetic, Martin has created an eclectic collection for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believing in everything and nothing.

Autor

From Roman Catholic Sister of Mercy and English teacher in New Jersey to international management trainer; from author of business books to poetry collections; from work addict to devotee of the Spanish proverb, "It is beautiful to do nothing and rest afterwards," Carolyn Martin is blissfully retired--and resting--in Clackamas, Oregon. A lover of gardening and snorkeling, feral cats and backyard birds, Martin embraces poetry as her way of interacting with the world¬¬--in images, rhythms, sounds, and intensities of language. That is why she's settled into the joyful task of translating experience into as few words as possible.Her aesthetic is found in Galway Kinnell's statement, "To me, poetry is somebody standing up...and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment." With little concealment, her poems grapple with this challenge. Martin's poems have appeared in more than 200 publications throughout North America, Australia, and the UK. The Poetry Box released her second collection, The Way a Woman Knows, in 2015; a chapbook, Nothing More to Lose, in 2020; and her fifth collection, The Catalog of Small Contentments, in 2021. For more see: www.carolynmartinpoet.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unsolicited Press
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 203g
• ISBN-13: 9781947021716
• ISBN-10: 1947021710
• Artikelnr.: 55977158