Fall (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Newman, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819567086 ISBN 13: 9780819567086

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This new book by award-winning author Amy Newman explores as its formal structure the 72 definitions for the word "fall." These lovely, accessible poems span a narrative drama--from the creation of the world and the subsequent exile of its first inhabitants, through the downward movement of the human body in its surrender to illness and the world's gravitational pull, to the beauty in the descent of spent foliage in autumn.

Each definition of "fall" engenders its own poem, and the definitions serve as poem titles. Section one explores the theological sense of The Fall, and section two focuses on the present world, addressing how the blemish of that Fall--real or imagined, religious or cultural--exists in us as homesickness, physical illness, and domestic and spiritual dissolution. The third section attends to the very gesture of defining, of finding ways to name and live in a world where both the landscape and the language are vividly alive yet saturated with memory and loss.

About this title

From the Publisher:

6 x 9 trim.

About the Author:

AMY NEWMAN is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University and author of Order, or Disorder (1995), which received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize, and Camera Lyrica (1999), which received the Beatrice Hawley Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0819567086
• ISBN 13: 9780819567086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 84