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The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected by Emanuel, Lynn
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- Publication Year
- 2015
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- Book Title
- Nerve of It : Poems New and Selected
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- Item Length
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- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Genre
- Poetry
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- General, American / General
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- Number of Pages
- 120 Pages
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Winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings and pleases with its intelligence, wit and vivacity. It breaks through, in ways that are bold, sexy, haunting and wry, the die-hard opposition of new and old, personal narrative and linguistic play, sincerity and irony, misery and hilarity. Open the book. Something new is happening here.
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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10
0822963698
ISBN-13
9780822963691
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211280842
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nerve of It : Poems New and Selected
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
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Ps3555.M34n47 2015
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"Already one of our most original voices, Emanuel has constructed a 'new and selected' that is both stunning and seamless. Excavating the previous work to reveal the emotional and aesthetic 'nerve' of it, Emanuel invites us to watch a mature and provocative artist emerge from the verve and dazzle that have always characterized her work." --Martha Collins, "Lynn Emanuel's riveting volume is ordered as the story of a life, but the emphasis belongs on story ; this poet is possessed by the inescapable elision, invention, and revision that telling entails. Her riddling, elusive poems pull the reader through memory mirrored and revealed, told by a narrator who slips in and out of her own skin, delivering, time after time, the truth of ardor, sorrow, and bewilderment in poems that pulse with sheer wild nerve." --Mark Doty, "Every poem in The Nerve of It takes on a different tumult--from madcap to turbulent. The collection is vivid, sexy, and captures Emanuel's irrepressible drive." --Kimiko Hahn, "Emanuel's work (Noose and Hook), in the new and previously collected poems presented here in an original sequence, displays all the qualities of an outgoing personality: direct, confident, vivacious, and generous to the reader. It's an original turn; the arc is nonchronological and reads as a single, independent text that makes clear the central concerns in her work and shows the development of various aesthetic and thematic tracks. The collection begins with Emanuel's most straightforwardly autobiographical poems and moves through her increasing interest in the slippery qualities of narrative. Poems of portraiture and place begin to include meditations on mortality and decay, attend to abstracted qualities of identity and intimacy, in homages to Baudelaire, O'Hara, Stein, Whitman, and Berrigan. While in much of her writing the writer is "like a ship plated with the armor of experience,/ nosing the seas which are its seas," there is also "the call to rise out of the trance of myself/ into the surcease of the dying world." Emanuel's uninhibited manner and her noir sensibilities are constants, especially the finely wrought use of melodrama and the erotic. New readers will gain a strong sense of Emanuel's poetics, and those familiar with her work will see old poems in a new light as their shifted contexts draw out new resonances." --Publishers Weekly, "Every poem in The Nerve of It takes on a different tumult--from madcap to turbulent. The collection is vivid, sexy, and captures Emanuel's irrepressible drive." --Kimiko Hahn, "Lynn Emanuel's riveting volume is ordered as the story of a life, but the emphasis belongs on story ; this poet is possessed by the inescapable elision, invention, and revision that telling entails. Her riddling, elusive poems pull the reader through memory mirrored and revealed, told by a narrator who slips in and out of her own skin, delivering, time after time, the truth of ardor, sorrow, and bewilderment in poems that pulse with sheer wild nerve." --Mark Doty, "Emanuel's extraordinary poetic intelligence, gutsy wit, and her images' ideal meld of the concrete and the ineffable amaze . What vibrant, resonant, nimble poems, each a perfect cocktail of acuity, objectivity, and heart." --Amy Gerstler
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
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2018-277896
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Series
Pitt Poetry Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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