A Minute without Danger (Adventures in Poetry) - Softcover

Waters, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970625030 ISBN 13: 9780970625038

Publisher: Adventures in Poetry, 2001

Synopsis

Fierce confusion and a pitch-perfect sense of humor interact chemically in Jacqueline Waters’ poetry. The result of her rueful kindness is the deep surprise that comes from being intensely awake and from paying close attention to "not just the creation of a pattern, / but an examination of the principles behind a pattern." Waters is serious but never earnest.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Somewhere between Some Trees¤era John Ashbery and Ange Mlinko, Waters”s poised page-length lyrics pull off the difficult trick of making the first person at once immediate and strange: Odd I had to learn to act natural/ To look as innocent as a beaker/ though less rigid or reproducible. While things seem to be happening, fully spelled-out narratives are hard to come by, though most readers will be content to follow the speaker in Seeking the oddly beautiful crimp/ In the sinister code/ to decipher it out of existence. This book comes very close.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Adventures in Poetry
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0970625030
• ISBN 13: 9780970625038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56