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Spar.
Title:
Spar.
Author:
Volkman, Karen.
ISBN:
9781587294167
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (73 pages)
Series:
Iowa Poetry Prize ; v.1

Iowa Poetry Prize
Contents:
Create Desire -- I won't go in today -- Shrewd star -- The problem of these -- ''Why are you here'' -- If it be event -- Meet me two years -- More feet on more -- May -- What, I said -- There Comes a time -- What we know -- Kiss Me Deadly -- O verb, o void -- Lady of the lake -- August could ask -- Yellow drapes -- Although the paths -- There was a stare -- And when the nights -- It could be a bird -- Poem (My hayseed harlequin) -- Or would triumph -- Octaves, ovations -- The first greeting -- I was watching -- Now I promise -- When kiss spells -- Betrayal -- He deciphers -- Tender feather -- Yes the red flower -- A story left -- I never wish to -- Dear noon -- Shadow of a Doubt -- The rain falls -- Winter Abstract -- A light says why -- O coronet -- The end of the day -- Implorers, connivers -- What I meet of -- And the urge is less -- Poem (Black corners of winter) -- I have a friend -- To take, to make -- Do not think, beloved -- Lost he says -- Heroic Roses -- No noise subtracts -- I believe there is -- We did things.
Abstract:
Karen Volkman's award-winning collection Spar has as its central form a highly compressed, musical variant of the prose poem. Volkman develops a new lyric density that marries the immediacy of image-centered poetry to the rhythmic resources of prose. Her first poem begins, "Someone was searching for a Form of Fire," and this wild urge to seek form--and thus definition--in the most uncontainable of elements propels the book forward; each poem maps the mind's evolving positions in response to its variable and perilous encounters. Sometimes the encounter is romantic or purely carnal, a sensual landscape of human relations. At other times, nature itself has an almost humanly emotional connection to the speaker.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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