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Orexia : Poems by Lisa Russ Spaar (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPersea Books, Incorporated
ISBN-100892554770
ISBN-139780892554775
eBay Product ID (ePID)223961432
Product Key Features
Book TitleOrexia : Poems
Number of Pages96 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWomen Authors, American / General
Publication Year2017
GenrePoetry
AuthorLisa Russ Spaar
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length0.8 in
Item Width0.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-028347
Reviews"Poet, essayist, and anthologist Spaar (Vanitas, Rough) draws upon the Greek term for "desire" or "appetite," in a collection that is palpable with hunger for the physical: "Simple to say: there is a gash,// then balm. Admit we love the abyss,/ our mouths sipping it in one another." Yet Spaar's poems are not satisfied only by the carnal. "Can a word have soul? How move/ from one to the next without dying?" Spaar asks. And this is what she hungers for, to keep each word as vividly alive in each piece as she can...", Spaar is invested in truth-telling, but through stripping language of its common colloquial associations, its unthoughtful dispatches. This is the opposite of propaganda, wherein the words remain enshrouded in so many associations and interpretations that they can have persuasive, and yet, indeterminate meanings. Spaar's poetry shows that to think of the appetite on one side and our language capacity on the other is a false dichotomy. Our particular human hunger is for survival and for meaning at once, for survival through the meaning that words give our world. We are beings who are hungry for meaning and this is precisely makes language used for ill so dangerous. It is also how language, when used for beauty, can lend us back our lives., 'Orexia' contains elegiac tributes to those passed and cameos by brilliant women writers of cloistered yearnings, Dickinson and Wordsworth (Dorothy, not William). But its true pulse lies in the poet's Keatsian considerations of nature to consider herself, the baroque effulgence of her (unbeatable) lexicon balanced by her competing impulse to give it to us straight.
SynopsisThrumming with the triune hungers of mind, mouth, and spirit, Lisa Russ Spaar s fifth book plumbs daily life in order to transcend it, discovering and embodying the sacred and erogenous as it does so. Seductive and symphonic, Orexia is the latest glory by the ringleader of a stunning lexicon Shenandoah).", In sensual newpoems, Lisa Russ Spaar explores the physical and spiritual desires oflate-middle age, showcasing as she does so her magical capacity to entwine thecolloquial and baroque, the explicit and the ethereal., Thrumming with the triune hungers of mind, mouth, and spirit, Lisa Russ Spaar's fifth book plumbs daily life in order to transcend it, discovering and embodying the sacred and erogenous as it does so. Seductive and symphonic, Orexia is the latest glory by the "ringleader of a stunning lexicon" ( Shenandoah )., Thrumming with the triune hungers of mind, mouth, and spirit, Lisa Russ Spaar's fifth book plumbs daily life in order to transcend it, discovering and embodying the sacred and erogenous as it does so. Seductive and symphonic, Orexia is the latest glory by the "ringleader of a stunning lexicon" (Shenandoah).
LC Classification NumberPS3568.U7644A6 2017
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