Ostinato Vamps

Poems
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8229-5833-8
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: Pitt Poetry Series

Ostinato Vamps is Wanda Coleman's first book of poetry since the demise of her longtime publisher, Black Sparrow Press. It continues and enlarges the traits that have been her hallmark for more than three decades: a fierce adherence to the truth and a language so musical one can almost hear the blues line underneath her stanzas. Linguistically daring, lyrically breathtaking, stylistically bold, these poems both explore familiar territory and shatter stereotypes. Life is difficult, often unfair, but it belongs to the living, as Coleman reminds us in no uncertain terms. Racing between an earthy eroticism and fatalistic despair, filled with humor and tragedy, these poems are alive. They breathe. They challenge us even as they reward us for seeking the truth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coleman, Wanda

Über Autor(innen)

Wanda Coleman, sometimes referred to as the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles, is the winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bathwater Wine, a bronze-medal finalist for the National Book Award in 2001 for Mercurochrome, and the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. Also a novelist, essayist, and Emmy-winning television writer, her poems have appeared in more than seventy anthologies. Renowned for her electrifying readings, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband.