My Shining Archipelago (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300070314 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 70 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Robert Hass, Adrienne Rich, John Hollander, and many other excellent poets came to national prominence early in their careers through the Yale Series of Younger Poets. . The 1996 winner, chosen by James Dickey, was Talvikki Ansel. Dickey writes that Ansel's poems evoke "the heat, the closeness, the mystery, and the terrible fear of the undisclosed." The writing is beautiful, and often plays with the space between expectation and reality, as in "In Fragments, In Streams." Ansel writes: "Haley's Comet crossed the jungle sky / that April, six mornings i
This collection of poetry was the winner of the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
A Book To Return To I love these poems, and find myself returning to them again and again over the years. Talvikki Ansel combines the acute precision of a scientific eye with shimmering, translucent, finely-honed language. Her mastery of the sonnet form in the second and third sections of the volume seems virtually effortless -- as if the poem. She shells see shells by the sea sure Telvicki Ansel communicates the multiple awareness of self, nature, and the unmanefest. She can have you hold a pear as she has held it, and feel the humorous frustration of raising miniature horses. "My Shining Archipelago" is a real find.