Disfortune (Paperback)
Poems
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Pages: 84
ISBN: 9780819512260
Published: 1st August 1995
Script Academic
Pages: 84
ISBN: 9780819512260
Published: 1st August 1995
Script Academic
Please note this book may be printed for your order so despatch times may be slightly longer than usual.
You'll be £11.95 closer to your next £10.00 credit when you purchase Disfortune. What's this?
+£4.99 UK Delivery or free UK delivery if order is over £40
(click here for international delivery rates)
Order within the next 5 hours, 31 minutes to get your order processed the next working day!
Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates
(click here for international delivery rates)
Order within the next 5 hours, 31 minutes to get your order processed the next working day!
Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates
Disfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting lyrics expose the irreducible contradictions of living, wherein "the talking-singing, the whole talking-/singing ball of yarn, begins to unravel." Deceptively casual in tone, these poems offer startling confrontations with "the unoriginal/oblivion," with "the contrived delicacy/of what is emptied and kept." Joe Wenderoth sees "fortune" as the mute history of events proceeding toward the ultimate security; his poems arise from "disfortune," from the need "Just to sing the song that's kept you/quiet/all this time." This book is a rare occurrence, marking not only a new intimacy with the world, but also a remembering of the determined motion of intimacy itself.
Other titles in Wesleyan University Press...