Vertical Elegies 5: The Section: Sonnets

Truitt Sam

ISBN 10: 082032504X / ISBN 13: 9780820325040

Published by University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 2003

About this Item

(x), 69pp. Truitt's signature is on the title page and his wife Anne has additionally inscribed the book for the Cumbrian poet, Neil Curry.

Seller Inventory # AB109681

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vertical Elegies 5: The Section: Sonnets
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082032504X
• ISBN 13: 9780820325040
• Binding: Card Wrappers
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • A-Z Secondhand
  • Signed Books
  • American Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Imagine moving at the speed of thought through a sense-engulfing place―a city street, carnival, airport lobby . . . or your life. You have no time to process these sounds, sights, smells, and other psycho-sensory bulges―but no way either to keep them from flooding the inner world you're forever on the verge of sorting out. That, in part, is the experience of reading these sixty-nine sonnets, each of them a multidimensional, kaleidoscopic crossroad where organic form, awareness, memory/history, intellect, and the human heart merge into specificity, like light at the end of a tunnel.

The Boston Review has said this of Truitt's poetry: "Cunning formal maneuverings provide the distance and displacement needed to rattle the teeth of syntax and alter the current beat. As a reader, one gets caught up in the frenzy. There is the pleasure of verbal abandon and the reassurance of visual control. There is the perpetually keyed-up anticipation of anything-could-happen-here." And it does.

About the Author

SAM TRUITT is author of the collection Anamorphosis Eisenhower. His work has appeared in such literary journals as Verse, Ploughshares, and Fence, as well as in The Best American Poetry 2002. Truitt currently lives in New York City.