|
by: April Bernard
Amazon.com's Price: $12.95 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780393325089
ISBN: 0393325083
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 88
Publication Date: 2003-12
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 808791
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
April Bernard's idiosyncratic and profoundly emotional voice combines flights of fancy, moral sternness, and wit in broadly explorative poems—from a memoir sequence about the East Village in the 1980s, to 'disheveled' sonnets of self-interrogation, to darkly comic hallucinations. Bernard's idiosyncratic and profoundly emotional voice combines flights of fancy, moral sternness, and wit.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Structural Balance Key to Deciphering Collection's Puzzles
April Bernard is not new to poetry. Swan Electric, her latest book of poems, follows two previous collections of poetry and a novel. But Swan Electric is a work standing on its own. It is a soulful purveyor of everyday humanity's many schismatic sides. The reader does not have to know Bernard's previous styles of writing in order to understand Swan Electric, but understanding the book is certainly difficult. The heart of Bernard's difficulty exists in finding out just what that the book's ... Read More
Rating: - compelling modern verse
Amazon's editorial review says this is her 2nd collection of poems, but it's her 3rd, the first 2 in order being Blackbird Bye-Bye & Psalms. April Bernard's language in this collection is ambitious & saturated with the modern world in melancholy, poetic experiments, & themes. April Bernard is a fantastic poet, very knowledgeable. Since you've gotten to the point of reading this review, you should just buy the book already.
Rating: - A good professor, a good poet
I have been lucky enough to take classes with April Bernard (she teaches at my college--Bennington) and her passion for language is as evident in the classroom as it is in her writings. This is a must read for anyone who loves language and/or for anyone who wants to be a writer.
|
