Blue Venus
Lisa Russ Spaar
(Author)
Description
In Blue Venus, Lisa Russ Spaar explores the intimate relationship between the sensual and the sacred. Her nocturnal poems weave themselves into the very fabric of private fervorlyric, sexual, spiritualbeginning with Dusk and continuing on until Dawn. Fierce and giving, Spaar's exquisite verse isolates essential moments of vulnerability and wonder. A series on insomniain the voices of some notable insomniacsis among the most moving extended sequences in recent memory. Elsewhere, she traces poetry back to its primordial rootsprayer, lullabye, mourning, exaltation. Propelled throughout by a resolute belief in the relationship between the human and the cosmic Blue Venus is a brilliant new star in poetry's firmament (Carol Muske-Dukes).Product Details
Price
$14.95
Publisher
Persea Books
Publish Date
October 01, 2004
Pages
69
Dimensions
5.52 X 0.27 X 7.98 inches | 0.28 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780892553068
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About the Author
Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of many collections of poetry, most recently Orexia (Persea, 2017), and a collections of essays, The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry. She is the editor of Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson; Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems; and All that Mighty Heart: London Poems. She is a poetry columnist for Los Angeles Review of Books and Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
