The Disappearing Letters - Softcover

Carol Edelstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096604598X ISBN 13: 9780966045987

Publisher: Perugia Press, 2005

Synopsis

Winner of the 2005 Perugia Press Prize, Carol Edelstein's new book of poetry, The Disappearing Letters, approaches familiar poetic themes love and loss with intuitive animation. The poet takes a direct view of the oblique and a slanted look at the obvious, creating a landscape with springs of great joy and also dry places where loss, wistfully remembered, is confronted and transcended. Edelstein is a poet of the first order; she can harness her innate spontaneity to produce finely wrought, imaginative poetry. The Disappearing Letters is an elegy to what's come before us and a celebration of the living.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Edelstein lives within a mile of where she was born, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her first book, The World Is Round (Amherst Writers and Artists Press), was published in 1994. She has had fiction, essays, and poems in magazines and anthologies, including the Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Flash Fiction. Edelstein leads writing workshops and organizes a reading series that features local writers.

Review:

Readers approaching the end of The Disappearing Letters will come upon this question, 'Who thrums life into what was plain?' and they will know by then that one answer is Carol Edelstein. Exploring dream, daydream, and acute wakefulness, Edelstein connects us with realms that are simultaneously askew and straight on: 'we make the world as we go round on it, and link // when we can our two tunnels.' Refusing to go gentle, The Disappearing Letters decries fading and flaunts perseverance: 'There was no end to us, so we did not stint.' --Stephen Corey

Zeal is dominant and praise a signature of the poetry in The Disappearing Letters . Discovery is the goal of Carol Edelstein's supple language a turn of vision in an unexpected direction, an inward twist of clarity, an opening outward of new perspective, a coming together of memory and possibility. The voice of wonder in these poems is infectious. --Pattiann Rogers

About this edition

• Publisher: Perugia Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 096604598X
• ISBN 13: 9780966045987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72