Barbara Blatner

Broschiertes Buch

The Still Position

A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

Beschreibung

THE STILL POSITION chronicles the last days of life of the poet's difficult but cherished mother. Set in upstate New York among deer and hawks under a stone-scarred mountain, these poems reveal the death of the body and the heart's passage through loss and grief, anger and confusion, forgiveness and devotion. These poems are very up-close, chiseled, and go against sentimentality by staying with details and particulars. Although the end is known from the beginning, readers will be affected by such an honest and suspenseful journey.

Autor

Barbara Blatner is a poet, playwright and composer-musician. She lives in northern Manhattan with her husband and two cats, and teaches in the English Department at Yeshiva University. A second full-length collection of poems, Living with You, will be published by NYQ Books in Fall 2011. The Pope in Space, a poetry chapbook, was published by Intertext Press (1984). Barbara's verse play No Star Shines Sharper was published by Baker's Plays (1991), produced for radio and aired repeatedly on National Public Radio stations. Her plays have been produced in New York, Boston and Cleveland. She has written musical scores for theatre, including the Boston Shakespeare Company and New Theatre, and songs for the Boston-based fusion group Urban Myth with whom she played keyboards for five years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYQ Books
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9781935520238
• ISBN-10: 1935520237
• Artikelnr.: 31866151