Chamber Music: New & Selected Poems - Softcover

Hayn, Annette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 092255837X ISBN 13: 9780922558377

Publisher: Poet's Press, The, 2009

Synopsis

Chamber Music, first published in September 2001, is re-issued here with new material: the poet's last, posthumous poems (Memorial to the Moon) and a memoir by poet Mary Ferrari. This 152-page book brings together the poet's best mature work, plus her own selections of the best poems from her earlier books, Rapunzel (1971), One-Armed Flyer (1976), Journeys Around One Point (1980), The Crossing (1984), Calendar House (1990), and Enemy on the Way to School (1994). Annette believed that Chamber Music in 2001 would be her last book, but the final group of poems added for this edition demonstrate that she was still in peak form. This finely-etched, spare poetry, influenced greatly by the example of her early teacher, Kenneth Koch, intersperses the everyday with the surrealistic, walks bravely among her worlds: childhood in Nazi Germany, boarding school in England, family life and the discovery of poetry writing in America, and her final years overshadowed by 9/11 and her own confrontation with mortality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poet's Press, The
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 092255837X
• ISBN 13: 9780922558377
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 152