Infanta (National Poetry Series) - Softcover

Belieu, Erin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556591012 ISBN 13: 9781556591013

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1995

Synopsis

Chosen for the National Poetry Series by Hayden Carruth. Erin Belieu has an uncanny knack for listening and for locating the perspective of various others within her poems. Armed with humor, anger, and sensuality, she fuses the discursive methods of fiction to a lyric impulse, resulting in a remarkable book of portraits, mostly of people caught in ungainly moments of failure and self-revelation.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Reviewed in Choice, December 1995
"Despite (or perhaps because of) the numerous first volumes by new poets, it is always a surprise and a delight to encounter a true voice. Infanta provides just such an experience. The majority of these poems are Belieu's personal statements spoken in a free verse that manages to combine freshness and art. A winner in the National Poetry Series, this volume offers poems that have, in Hayden Carruth's words, 'sophisticated urban chic'....The poet's mixture of sexual and spiritual tension uniquely enlivens her work. This volume is a pleasure to read and promises future work of equal delight."

About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1556591012
• ISBN 13: 9781556591013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150