The Selvage: Poems

ISBN: 0547750099

Author: Gregerson, Linda

Condition: New

A magnificent new collection from National Book Award finalist and Kingsley Tufts Award winner Linda GregersonIn eloquent poems about Ariadne, Theseus, and Dido, the death of a father, a bombing raid in Lebanon, and in a magnificent series detailing Masaccios Brancacci frescoes, The Selvage deftly traces the line between the wonder and woe of human experience. Keenly attuned to the precariousness of our existence in a fractured world-of how little the world will spare us-Gregerson explores the cruelty of human and political violence, such as the recent island massacre in Norway and the current nightmare of war and terrorism. And yet, running as a counterpoint to violence and cruelty is The reigning brilliance / of the genome and / the risen moon . . . , The / arachnids exoskeleton. The kestrels eye. The Selvage is the boldest evidence yet that Linda Gregersons unique combination of dramatic lyricism and fierce intelligence transcends current fashions to claim an enduring place in American poetry.