Compulsions of Silk Worms and Bees: Poems (Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award)
(Part of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize Series Series)
"Part primer, part credo, part arm-swinging gambol, this wonderful book is resonant with wit and insight."--Linda Bierds
Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees takes up the tradition of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, but on poetry's own terms. At first glance, Baggott's candid counsel can be seen as a manual on writing poetry, written in poems. As the book unfolds, however, these poems take on the larger landscape of love and loss, the rigors of living fully, and the intricate, mysterious territory of our fragile, hardworking souls.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080713256X
ISBN13:9780807132562
Release Date:March 2007
Publisher:Pleiades Press
Length:80 Pages
Weight:0.32 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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Good read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Her poetry is meaningful and quite deep. I had to read for class but I truly did enjoy it.
A Well-Tuned Compulsion
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I am a writer and reader of poetry who usually stays away from poems about poetry or the writing of it, but Julianna Baggott's new collection resonates beyond the sometimes self-involved world of poetry. It ventures into moments of human life and creates vignettes of intimacy, so much so that her vehicle of using the craft of writing as a spring board fades, and true human emotion is unearthed. Her language has a clarity and vibrancy, and it is from there that her images stay hinged in the mind: "...my mother shining with sweat, not so much/ the moth-tinging bulb above her head,/ but the poem, in the road/ hissing like a rearing hood-flared cobra, the old sibilant iron,/ its red glowing eye."
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