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Cry back my sea : 48 poems in 6 waves
- Title
- Cry back my sea : 48 poems in 6 waves / Sarah Arvio.
- Author
- Arvio, Sarah, 1954-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-8726 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- ix. 92 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet and translator of Lorca. "I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart," Sarah Arvio confesses in the poem "small war." The love Arvio traces in these pages is a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery. In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: "my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weather of your presence. Not whether your presence but how." The voice is vulnerable, self-knowing, often funny; the poet seems to be writing these poems to save herself from a damaging passion. Her weapons are a cascade of gorgeous ten-syllable lines and a powerful command of metaphor, wielded in a search for meaning and understanding rather than devastation. These breathtaking love poems make the collection Arvio's most universal to date"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Contents
- Small War -- Shrew -- Gosling -- Animal -- Neck -- Rat Idyll -- Wood -- Whorl -- Sage -- Heart -- Nest -- Aurora (or Ra) -- Puck -- Bodhisattva -- Algarve -- Sides (or Sidereal) -- Wreck -- Crow -- Peas -- Fey -- Rimbaud (or Desert Love) -- Silk Road -- Shah -- Ether -- Kissing Her (or Morning Glory) -- Trinkets -- Sinbad (or Symbiotic) -- Body -- Hitchcockian -- Aguantate -- Tu Mi Vinci (or Hang) -- Sad (or de Sade) -- Shoe -- Handbag -- Tanager -- Red Dress -- Peacock -- Garden -- Regal -- Nonpareil -- Sheepfold -- Rodeo of the Rose -- The Rose -- Bed -- Hard Place -- Some Hand -- Go & Go -- Sponge.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8726
- ISBN
- 9780593319505
- 0593319508
- LCCN
- 2020048966
- OCLC
- 1204268152
- Author
- Arvio, Sarah, 1954- author.
- Title
- Cry back my sea : 48 poems in 6 waves / Sarah Arvio.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Arvio, Sarah, 1954- Cry back my sea New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 9780593319512 (DLC) 2020048967
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8726