Devolution of the Nude - Softcover

McMahon, Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879239557 ISBN 13: 9780879239558

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1994

"From a buoyant imagination and a luxurant, spiky diction, Lynne McMahon's poems brew a heady elixir. Under its spell, Elvis can be seen as Orpheus, or Virgil turn up as an evangelist. A baby's pacifier or the state of California, anything and everything gets reinvented by this marvelous fabulist."
J.D. McClatchy

"These are poems of scope and daring: the traditional image of one line turns into the subversive emblem of another. Elvis and California. The sixties and sunglasses. These icons of one world are negotiated into the meanings of another. But what is most impressive is the yearning in every line to heal the false divisions between the public and the private, between the outer meaning and the inward perception."
Eavan Boland

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About the Author:

Lynne McMahon has published four collections of poetry: Faith (Wesleyan University Press, 1988), Devolution of the Nude (David R. Godine, 1993), The House of Entertaining Science (David R. Godine, 1999), and, most recently, Sentimental Standards (David R. Godine, 2004). Her essays have appeared in such journals as The New York Times Book Review, New Virginia Review, American Poetry Review, and The Southern Review. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Partisan Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Yale Review, The New England Review and The Paris Review. The recipient of an Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also been awarded grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Missouri Arts Council.

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