This collection of poems explores wayfaring, both in a spiritual sense and in the sense of knowledge navigation in an information age. It explores American history, encompassing writing and identity in the figures of Emily Dickinson and Willard Gibbs, the country's first mathematical physicist.
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This collection of poems explores wayfaring, both in a spiritual sense and in the sense of knowledge navigation in an information age. It explores American history, encompassing writing and identity in the figures of Emily Dickinson and Willard Gibbs, the country's first mathematical physicist.
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"Erudite—the word might be hurled at a poet as an insult, meant to suggest dull, arcane knowledge and lack of accessibility. In Strickland's case, however, erudite is a term of praise. For ideas and facts stud her poetry like so many gleaming jewels, yet they never tarnish the gold of human experience from which the poems are wrought. Take the trope of the title poem, for instance: beginning with the difference between magnetic and true north, Strickland launches into an exploration of the forces of love, until the metaphor links science and the heart so tightly that they are inseparable. Strickland's language is not easy; it is full of citations and allusions and sometimes dense with wordplay. But the force of her passion for ideas and for human connection sustains each poem." —Patricia Monaghan
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780268018993
Publisert
1997-01-15
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Notre Dame Press
Vekt
152 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
6 mm
Aldersnivå
00, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Biographical note

Stephanie Strickland is a poet living in New York City. She has published eight volumes of print poetry and co-authored eleven digital poems.