Invisible Bride: Poems (Walt Whitman Award)
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Book Overview
Tony Tost's exhilarating poetry debut defles conventional description. Like a fantastic film, a feverish delirium, or a dream state, these prose poems use an experimental lexicon of imagery that goes beyond anything typically poetic. Tost's point of departure is the loss of the Other that makes the I: Agnes, And in a sort of coming-of-age soliloquy song, he meditates on a range of topics: fatherhood, childhood, identity, poetry. Together his poems express the unburdening of consciousness, a consciousness that contains the likes of Blake, Italo Calvino, Allen Grossman, and Frank Stanford, among others (including Tost himself), Surreal and surprising, Invisible Bride showcases the prose artistry of a new American talent.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807129658
ISBN13:9780807129654
Release Date:January 2004
Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
Length:57 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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Escaping the Tree
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Martin Heidegger writes of the poet as being able to provide for humans a picture of what Being is by making language speak the unspoken. Invisible Bride, in all it's muted exhiliration of a voice(s) both human and majestic embedded in the palpable reaches of language does just that: it shows that somehow we are stuck inside a tree trunk with arms flailing trying to describe what exists outside; the outside being the world we inhabit, but never grasp. Only a poet could do this and Tost has shown his acumen of humanity superbly by speaking the unspoken. Tost has fashioned a bridle around language in which to champion the gross richness that chooses to hide instead of reveal. He leads the reader to darkened roads and, on occasion, refreshing streams in search of what possibly exists out there. What he finds there moves both inside and out: a blind man, children, irate mothers, a twin...etc. Coaxing the reader to tear the bark and revel in the glaring particularity of what the world is, a world once concealed is given new life. Tost has brought back the gems of this world to share and remind us that there is more than one way to escape the tree in order to see for ourselves what we are missing.
Invisible Bride
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I think this is a wonderful book of poems. I hope to see more of his writings in print.I feel he did a great job.
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