Tour of the Breath Gallery (Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry): Poems - Hardcover

Strong, Sarah Pemberton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896727947 ISBN 13: 9780896727946

Publisher: Texas Tech Press,U.S., 2013

Synopsis

In <em>Tour of the Breath Gallery</em>, Strong explores how our subtlest gestures articulate our most passionate concerns. She maps the intricacies of the body—the fingers of a hand, the work of breathing—with the same dexterity she brings to investigating what inspires a mother to demolish a kitchen wall or a lover to change genders. Strong also examines the qualities of spiritual experience—in Buddhist practice, in reimagined biblical narratives, and in the details of daily life. Formally alert and often funny, with an ear for the music of everyday speech, <em>Tour of the Breath Gallery</em> guides us through the interplay of the domestic and the sublime with a wise and generous grace.

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Review:

The world is so loud. Everyone, it seems, is brandishing a headline--perceived suffering at the hands of others, our powerless, righteous (and not so righteous) indignation shouting down all voices, including our own. Who can hear amidst such a cacophony? Who can translate this babel of voices? In Counterpoint, the envoi poem to "Tour of the Breath Gallery," Sarah Pemberton Strong wishes she could praise God / as Bach did, his body of sound / rising like light over hills, but because it s so late, she praises by pausing for the details / of duller things: a space / of silence. Robert A. Fink, from the Introduction"

About the Author:

<strong>Sarah Pemberton Strong</strong> is the author of two novels, <em>Burning the Sea</em> and <em>The Fainting Room</em>. Her poems have appeared in <em>Mississippi Review, RATTLE, the Southern Review, Southwest Review</em>, and other journals. She is a poetry editor for the <em>New Haven Review</em>.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas Tech Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0896727947
• ISBN 13: 9780896727946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 88