I'd concur with Glass Irony and God and Eros the Bittersweet as good
starting points. (Still not convinced by Autobiography of Red).
Cheers,
Jill
on 30/11/00 1:40 AM, Douglas Barbour at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Actually, although she's a Canadian poet, she has been published mainly by
> maistream US (& UK?) presses.
>
> She's a scholar/poet, & her first major book, _Eros, the Bitttersweet_, a
> meditation on Sappho, remains a small masterpiece.
>
> I'd definitely recommend any of her books, but it might be good to begin
> with either _Glass, I ronay and God_ (New Directions) or _Plainwater_
> (Knopf/Vintage)._Autobiography of Red_ a 'novel' in poetry is pretty
> awesome too. I haven't read _Men in the Off Hours_ yet, but expect it to be
> special. Her work is chocl full of greek mythology & allusions, yet with a
> contemporaneous force that is truly exciting. She forces you to think among
> other things.
>
> If I were a betting man, I'd put some money down on _Men in the Off Hours_
> for the first Griffin poetry prize...
>
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
> People, people -
> ten dead ducks' feathers
> on beer can litter . . .
> Winter
> will change all that
> Lorine Niedecker
>
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