A Woman Kneeling in the Big City: Poems - Softcover

MacKlin, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393311058 ISBN 13: 9780393311051

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

Synopsis

Elizabeth Macklin is a poet of the city.

Her subjects are everywhere: inside apartment houses and alongside towering buildings, on streets and sidewalks, or beneath them, at the water's edge and in the changing heavens. In her able hands, through her painterly eye and rich vision, the odd scraps of urban life are converted into a sort of Platonic dialogue of fruitful enigmas, paradoxes, and playful epiphanies.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Elizabeth Macklin is a poet of the city. Her subjects are everywhere: inside apartment houses and alongside towering buildings, on streets and sidewalks, or beneath them, at the water's edge and in the changing heavens. How are we to survive in such a place? What shall we feel? "The question today is jellyfish in the river - why transparent beings are not invisible. Why would somebody want power?" Here the large questions are posed, the small joys celebrated. "Here a loving sky's come out a deep clear blue". From beginning to end, in her able hands, through her painterly eye and rich vision, the odd scraps of urban life are converted into a sort of Platonic dialogue of fruitful enigmas, paradoxes, and playful epiphanies.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Macklin's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Prize, and an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship. She is the author of A Woman Kneeling in the Big City. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0393311058
• ISBN 13: 9780393311051
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96