Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue (APR Honickman 1st Book Prize) - Hardcover

Pavlic, Ed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0966339576 ISBN 13: 9780966339574

Publisher: American Poetry Review, 2001

Synopsis

APR First Book Prize winner. Energetic language and mature presence mark this beautiful, disturbing debut.

About this title

About the Author:

Adrienne Rich is poet, essayist, and one of America's most widely read and respected literary figures. She has been a life-long activist for women's issues.

From Publishers Weekly:

Selected by Adrienne Rich for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Pavlic's debut offers in return the musical cadences and lulls of experience: a lover's touch "gone to silence at the bottom/ of the pool. Rhythms, strings of the nidi/ travel thru bone// & in flesh waves without a goose/ ripple in my skin." Pavlic, who teaches in the English Department at Union College, spins endless synaesthesic trills, a seeming poetic signature (a "paraph" is a script flourish): "orange glow from inside the log, flakes waft like trout gills/ in a blue stream of smoke & I can't tell an ash limb/ from wood that breathes."

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About this edition

• Publisher: American Poetry Review
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0966339576
• ISBN 13: 9780966339574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96