The Radiant - Goett, Lise

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Résumé :
Poems about celestial and mortal bodies.

The Radiant explores the psychological, physical, and spiritual challenges of living in a body and the changes and distortions that arise from the experience of the body's limitations and inevitable death. The collection takes its title from the term for the point from which all meteors appear to emanate during a shower, luminous bodies in decay that when traced to their origin seem to converge at a single point. Perhaps you can remember the time called before, the all-you-can-do-is-see-yourself-in-a-split-second where you recognize that everything you've ever known is going to be different after, writes Goett in the collection's final poem, The Bookman, recounting radiant points of no return and transformation that, in spite of their challenge, remain luminous.
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Biographie:
Lise Goett's second book, Leprosarium, also published by Tupelo, was the 2012 winner of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award in Poetry from the Poetry Society of America for best manuscript-in-progress. Her other awards include the Paris Review Discovery Award, The Pen Southwest Book Award in Poetry, Capricorn Prize from the West Side Y, James D. Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation, and the Barnard New Women Poets Prize for her first poetry collection, Waiting for the Paraclete, as well as postgraduate fellowships from the Milton Center and the Creative Writing Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Image, Mandorla, and the Antioch Review. She teaches generative workshops and edits poetry manuscripts for publication out of her home in Taos, New Mexico.