Curves to the Apple – The Reproduction of Profiles Lawn of Excluded Middle Reluctant Gravities - Softcover

Waldrop, Rosmarie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081121673X ISBN 13: 9780811216739

Publisher: New Directions, 2006

Synopsis

Rosmarie Waldrop's Curves to the Apple brings together three highly praised and influential titles: The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, and Reluctant Gravities. Though originally published separately, these prose poems have always been intended as a loose trilogy of thought and feelingor of thought manifested as feeling. The author comments: "Just as the title Curves to the Apple combines the organic and geometry (not to mention myth and history of science) the poems navigate the conflicting, but inextricable claims of body and mind, especially the female body and feelings in a space of logic and physics. The poems could all be called dialogic, reaching out across a synaptic (sometimes humorous) gap to a possible 'you' (though it may be rhetorical, another point of view in the same mind). But while the 'I' dominates the first two volumes, the third gives both voices equal space and chance."

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About the Author

Rosmarie Waldrop, born in Germany in 1935, is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and a noted translator of French and German poetry. Her most recent books are The Nick of Time, Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize), and Driven to Abstraction.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081121673X
• ISBN 13: 9780811216739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272