Little River: New and Selected Poems (Triquarterly Books) - Hardcover

Linda McCarriston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810151324 ISBN 13: 9780810151321

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2002

Synopsis

From lyric, to narrative, to bardic, Linda McCarriston's poems continue to probe the contexts in which we experience both joy and anguish. They portray animals, children, friendships and landscapes while taking on the difficult issues of family life and gender power structures.

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Review:

When political poetry succeeds, it usually does so through a broadly announced theme. McCarriston's...third collection, a rich amalgam of new work and a glorious smattering of poems from previous award-winning volumes, works in a more delicate fashion: through imagery....the merits and hazards of personal autonomy resound in poem after poem... Provocative, finely wrought poems packing thematic punch with rare imagistic beauty. - Kirkus; ""There is a clean quality to McCarriston's work that makes it seem like worked stone, as though everything unnecessary had been stripped away. Stripped and bare as they are, McCarriston's poems are also musical, with voices calling and answering to each other despite all obstacles. Despite palpable loss, this is ultimately a majestically hopeful book."" - Booklist

From the Back Cover:

From lyric to narrative to bardic, Linda McCarriston's poems continue to probe not simply the encounters and relations that bring us joy and anguish but also the contexts in which we experience both. Exceptional among contemporary poets, McCarriston mobilizes feeling, thinking, and narrating simultaneously to create works of rich music, profound insight, and passion. With her characteristic honesty and energy, McCarriston draws from the lives of fellow human beings and from those of animals, too, the telling moments, metaphors, and myths of family life, social structures, and gender. Her recent experiences in Alaska come to represent, therefore, not so much an adventure as an emigration just as urgent as the previous generation's from County Down, Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0810151324
• ISBN 13: 9780810151321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 97