The Steam Sequence - Softcover

Sachs, Carly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931846811 ISBN 13: 9780931846816

Publisher: Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2006

Synopsis

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her work was included in Best American Poetry 2004. The Steam Sequence offers a journal into the mind of a Holocaust survivor in which past becomes present and a single woman struggles to locate herself. This book asks us to examine the silences and the spaces between memory and reality. "Breath, body, water, even wire seem unlikely candidates for eternal presence. But something that those name in this poem--a 'story' of inexplicable substance--will last forever"--Lyn Hejinian.

About this title

About the Author:

Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first collection of poems, the steam sequence won the 2006 Washington Writers' Publishing House Book Prize and was published in August 2006. She is the founder and co-curator of the Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, D.C.

Review:

Sachs tries to make sense of the massive senselessness of that genocide by making her poem immediate and minimalist. Present tense, suspended between memory and event, it's as if her narrative of woman, camp, solider and lost child was happening now. -- Katie Peterson, Chicago Tribune, February 11, 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: Washington Writers' Publishing House
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0931846811
• ISBN 13: 9780931846816
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72