Taking on the Local Color: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Program) - Softcover

Genser, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819510858 ISBN 13: 9780819510853

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1977

Synopsis

Cynthia Genser's landscapes, like those of D.H. Lawrence, are analogues of human emotions; her men and women exist in their effects-prototypes one minute, passionate and distinctly visible individuals the next. Person and place invite the reader into an adventure that begins and ends everywhere. The language employed throughout is voluptuous, sensuous, yet precise. The appeal is to all the senses as well as to reason and intelligence: the poems, seamed with a difficult, sweaty beauty, stimulate every pleasure center. But pure language play also leads to hard, intelligent sense. Of her own work, Cynthia Genser has said,"Although I belong to no special school or group, I align my poetry with the work of others aiming their metaphors at the banality and reductionism of our world-at the terror or planned obsolescence, Vogue Magazine, the threat of nuclear warfare. I cannot agree more with the Marxist Henri Lefebvre that poetry is the enemy and eventual victor in the war against 'terrorism' and the terrorist society we now live in."

About this title

About the Author

Cynthia Genser is also the author of two books, and her poems have been published in several magazines and journals, including The Paris Review and Western Humanities Review. She lives and works in New York City, and publishes now as Cynthia Kraman.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819510858
• ISBN 13: 9780819510853
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80