Midwood - Jana Prikryl

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Résumé :
In her third book, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, when past and future blur in the equidistance. Balancing formal innovation with deeply personal reflection, Midwood subtly but impiously explores love and sex and marriage and motherhood in plain, urgent language. Written for the most part early every morning over the course of a year, in all its changing seasons, Midwood includes a series of poems looking at and talking to trees...

Biographie:
Jana Prikryl is the author of three previous collections, The After Party, No Matter, and Midwood. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Prikryl lives in Brooklyn with her son and is the executive editor at The New York Review of Books....

Sommaire:
Prikryl's careful attention to the ordinary world outside the window forms an alternative measure of time that leafs and ramifies. With their rapid shifts of scale and unusual directness, these poems find a new language for confronting our moment....