Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems

Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems

This collection brings together 102 poems from Barbara Crookerâ‚¬s previous ten chapbooks of poetry, two of which won national prizes, with a handful of uncollected poems at the end. Of Crookerâ‚¬s work, William Matthews has written, â‚¬Å“Barbara Crookerâ‚¬s poems have been written with a deft touch and with that affection for their textures and pacings that weâ‚¬re accustomed to call, a little dryly, â‚¬Ëœtechnical skill.â‚¬ Itâ‚¬s a form of love, actually, and since sheâ‚¬s expended it on her poems, we can, too.â‚¬Â Janet McCann, writing in the Foreword, says, â‚¬Å“The poems in this collection come mostly from chapbooks, collections which cluster around a theme, such as loss of a parent or friend, raising a child with autism, travel, art. Crookerâ‚¬s collections are remarkable for their unity; their poems, epigraphs, even covers have a thematic thrust that collects and directs the work, making each a coherent work of art.... Reading the work from beginning to end provides an experience of Crookerâ‚¬s world, that place of work and sadness balanced by art and love. It also provides vignettes of growing up in the fifties and sixties and shows what it was like to come of age as a woman in those yearsâ‚¬"the expectations, the hopes, the barriers that had to be overcome. Even in poems of loss, the energy persists, giving us the sense that Crooker is truly in the current of life, feeling its verveâ‚¬"what Wallace Stevens called â‚¬Ëœthe intensity of loveâ‚¬ that he identified with â‚¬Ëœthe verve of earth.â‚¬â‚¬Â
Country USA
Brand Futurecycle Press
Manufacturer FutureCycle Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781938853708
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Futurecycle Press
Manufacturer	FutureCycle Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781938853708
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems

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