Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Barnstone, Aliki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931357684 ISBN 13: 9781931357685

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Barnstone, Aliki

About this title

About the Author:

ALIKI BARNSTONE is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. Among her recent books are Blue Earth and Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002), The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation, and Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development (University Press of New England, 2007). Her poems and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Her forthcoming book with Sheep Meadow is Pique. She teaches at the University of Missouri.

Review:

“All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstone’s poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most–shall we call her her master–Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul . . . . In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.” (Gerald Stern)

“For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.” (Robert Pinsky)

About this edition

• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1931357684
• ISBN 13: 9781931357685
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228