THE PAPER WASP

Cader, Teresa, Inscribed

ISBN 10: 0810150840 / ISBN 13: 9780810150843

Published by Triquarterly, 1999

About this Item

Near Fine first edition paperback inscribed by Cader on the title page. 81 pages, unmarked. ; ECR C POE; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 81 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 45463

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE PAPER WASP
• Publisher: Triquarterly
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810150840
• ISBN 13: 9780810150843
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In these poems, Teresa Cader undertakes three poetic explorations, all of them deriving from the book's opening image of a paper wasp spinning its white nest on a terrace in ancient China. The paper universe assembled by the wasp teems with both destructive and creative forces and will lead to the invention of paper and the power of writing. The book's first section explores the mystery of creativity; the second looks beneath the papery surface of the nest at the connection between physical and figurative birth. "Internal Exile," winner of the Poetry Society of America's 1997 George Bogin Memorial Award, forms the third section of the collection, addressing the invasion of the nest by destructive powers in the example of the life of Soviet writer Eugenia Ginzburg.