Fall (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Fall (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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This new book by award-winning author Amy Newman explores as its formal structure the 72 definitions for the word â€œfall.â€ These lovely, accessible poems span a narrative dramaâ€”from the creation of the world and the subsequent exile of its first inhabitants, through the downward movement of the human body in its surrender to illness and the world's gravitational pull, to the beauty in the descent of spent foliage in autumn.

Each definition of â€œfallâ€ engenders its own poem, and the definitions serve as poem titles. Section one explores the theological sense of The Fall, and section two focuses on the present world, addressing how the blemish of that Fallâ€”real or imagined, religious or culturalâ€”exists in us as homesickness, physical illness, and domestic and spiritual dissolution. The third section attends to the very gesture of defining, of finding ways to name and live in a world where both the landscape and the language are vividly alive yet saturated with memory and loss.
Country USA
Brand Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer Wesleyan University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780819567093
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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