Threshold: New and Selected Poems

The stages in Cary Waterman's career as a poet and teacher have been mile posted by the publication of a succession of fine collections dating back to 1975. She has now gathered together the best individual poems from each of these books, along with a robust sampling of her most recent work, into one attractive book. We meet up with a tension between the wild and the domestic again and again, from a graphic scene of butchering pigs to, decades later, a lengthy poem sequence recounting Persephone's descent into the underworld. There are moments to set the reader on edge--a marriage blender set on chip--and plenty of quiet moments, too, and spots of sheer silliness. Making elderberry jam becomes both a heroic and an erotic experience, an acupuncture treatment is transformed into a spiritual ordeal. Perhaps Robert Bly said it best: ''As an artist she insists that she will not let a descriptive line stand unless an inner concern of her own has broken through it...''
ASIN: 1947237101
VSKU: BVV.1947237101.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Cary Waterman
Binding: Paperback
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