Temper
by:
Beth Bachmann (author)
Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Lynn EmanuelThe elegies in Temper interrogate the way grief leaves us confrontational, in a state of fracture.
Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Lynn EmanuelThe elegies in Temper interrogate the way grief leaves us confrontational, in a state of fracture.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780822960409 (0822960400)
Publish date: August 28th 2009
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
I had to read this book in many short sittings due to its striking intensity and ability to disturb. The poems are razor-sharp and manage to deconstruct the sorts of images most of us experience via popular culture--forensics and crime shows, for instance--without reproducing the spectacle. At first...
The fact the poems spring from the murder of the poet’s sister made it extra interesting, since, like many, I am a voyeur of other people’s pain. And the poems are painful, but also delicately built, so there’s space to breathe. As an onlooker, I’m distant enough. (NOTE: I really don't know if it's ...
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