Now: A Collection of Poems - Softcover

Baumel, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1881163156 ISBN 13: 9781881163152

Publisher: Miami University Press, 1996

Synopsis

poetry

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From the Back Cover:

These provocative poems from the author of the award-winning The Weight of Numbers bring us a deeply urban sensibility with a visions of New York City as it is, as it is coming apart. A tough and impressive work of art, Now is about memory and accommodation, about greed and hunger, lust and rage. At times funny, at turns deeply spiritual and philosophical, this accomplished and striking collection confronts a range of contemporary subjects, from race relations to motherhood, modern Jewish experience to popular music. Fierce, tender, plainspoken, as well as finely wrought and artful, Now brings us the commanding voice of one of America's most talented younger poets.

From Booklist:

Baumel, a very gifted young poet, snares our hearts and minds with her second collection, whose title refers to the moment lived, a moment that Baumel adeptly dissects to show that every "now" contains a "then," every second of current experience may be a trigger that releases the bullet of memory. Her language is both simple and rich, abounding with common images made newly resonant, as in a poem about a woman who has lost her grandmother and now watches an ambulance go by: "Still they go past now, in every one a little story, / a little store window of pain, / there they go, taking someone, no her, her, her." Her subjects range from cleaning Sabbath poultry to dropping a needle on the floor, and every incident she describes she infuses with recollections that make her stop and make the reader yearn for the collection to keep going, yearn for more warm, salty morsels of a life that seems very familiar. Elizabeth Millard

About this edition

• Publisher: Miami University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1881163156
• ISBN 13: 9781881163152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64