Rough Honey - Melissa Stein

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Auteur(s) : Melissa Stein

Editeur : Copper Canyon Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2010

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 96

Expédition : 193

Dimensions : 22.8 x 15.1 x 1.0

ISBN : 0977639592

Résumé :

Rough Honey is the 2010 winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected and introduced by Mark Doty.

Biographie:
from a peepshow's manageable storm of boredom and sex to a passionate fall from grace in an orchard. By turns buoyant and forlorn, Rough Honey's characters both long for and abandon the hope of true connection, of home.

From Want Me:

Lemons crystallized in sugar, glistening
on a blue-glazed plate. The rarest volume
bound in blood leather. A silk carpet
woven so finely you can't push a needle through,
that from one edge is the silver of a leaf

underwater, and from the other bleu lumiere,
first frost on the cornflowers. A duet for cello
and woodsmoke, violin and icicle. Tangle of
black hair steeped in sandalwood, jasmine,
bergamot and vetiver and jewelled
with pomegranate seeds . . .

Melissa Stein's poems have appeared in leading literary journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2009, New England Review, and The American Poetry Review. She lives in San Francisco....

Sommaire:

Selected by Mark Doty from over one thousand manuscripts for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Melissa Stein's debut Rough Honey is a startling, sensuous collection that examines the deep sources of art. These poems speak of fragility and power, the contradictions of pleasure, and the bruises we bear. With remarkable range, they carry us from a whitewater rafting calamity to the torrents of wheat on a family farm...