Iovis Book II - Softcover

Waldman, Anne

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ISBN 10: 1566890535 ISBN 13: 9781566890533

Publisher: Coffee House Press, 1996

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The companion volume to the highly praised experimental epic poem Iovis: All is Full of Jove (Coffee House Press).

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About the Author:

Anne Waldman is an internationally renowned poet, performer, and Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is the co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action and the author of over forty books, including In the Room of Never Grieve and Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews, & Manifestos.

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Ambrose: Nam
Ancestor, Ancestor
Cosmology: Within The Mind Of The Sleeping God
Devil's Working Overtime
Evangelle
Ezln
Furor Bellicus
Glyphs
Hag Of Beare (caillech Berri)
Junglefication
Lacrimare, Lacrimatus
Lip Of The Real
Mortification
Nerves: Terrorist For Language
Objects Of Desire
One Taste
Rooms
Sequel To A Sharp Turn
Shree Jagannatha
So Help Me Sappho
Spin Or Lace It In Story
Sprechstimme (countess Of Dia)
There Was A Time An Eclipse
To Blunt The Knife
Tu'm
Up
Upadesha: Cycle Of Desire
Within A Budding
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

In Iovis Book II, Anne Waldman surveys the subjects of male war making and aggression, old and stubborn patriarchal social forms, and the damages of industrial and military expansionism. With a powerful spiritual compassion, Waldman conjures up a powerful mythic assistance. She summons female eidolons for her work, reaching out to Sappho, H. D. , the woman troubadour known as the Countess of Dia, the Gaelic Hag of Beare, and the Spider Woman of Native America. There are dirges for dead relatives and companions, and songs of healing as she watches over older friends taken ill. All of Waldman's themes come into focus (friendship, motherhood, politics, and Buddhist wisdom). This is a volume of epic poetry, the kind that has affected human consciousness and changed history. -- Midwest Book Review

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