The two Yvonnes
Jessica Greenbaum · 2012
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About the book
"This is the second collection from a Brooklyn poet whose work many readers will know from the New Yorker. Jessica Greenbaum's narrative poems, in which objects and metaphor share highest honors, attempt revelation through close observation of the everyday. Written in "plain American that cats and dogs can read," as Marianne Moore phrased it, these contemporary lyrics bring forward the challenges of Wislawa Szymborska, the reportage of Yehuda Amichai, and the formal forays of Marilyn Hacker. The book asks at heart: how does life present itself to us, and how do we create value from our delights and losses? Riding on Kenneth Koch's instruction to "find one true feeling and hang on," 'The Two Yvonnes' overtakes the present with candor, meditation, and the classic aspiration to shape lyric into a lasting force."--From publisher description.
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Series
- Princeton series of contemporary poets
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 57
- ISBN
- 9780691156620
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