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Malech, Dora

 
9780691181448: Stet: Poems: 139 (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
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ISBN 10: 0691181446 ISBN 13: 9780691181448
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 2018

Sinopsis

A fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining forms

In Stet, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and subject, exploring what it means to make or break a vow, to create art out of a life in flux, to reckon with the body’s bounds, and to arrive at a place where one might bear and care for another life. Tapping the inventive possibilities of constrained forms, particularly the revealing limitations of the anagram, Stet is a work of serious play that brings home the connections and intimacies of language.

"Stet," from the Latin for "let it stand," is a proofreading term meaning to retain or return to a previous phrasing. The uncertainty of changes made and then reconsidered haunts Stet as its poems explore what is left unsaid through erasures, redaction, and the limitations of spelling. How does one "go back" on one’s word or "stand by" one’s decisions? Can a life be remade or revised, or is the past forever present as in a palimpsest? Embodying the physicality and reproductive potentiality inherent in the collection’s forms and figures, Stet ends expectantly, not searching for closure but awaiting the messy, living possibilities of what comes next.

By turns troubling and consoling, Stet powerfully combines lyric invention and brilliant wordplay.

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Acerca del autor

Dora Malech is the author of two previous books of poetry, Say So and Shore Ordered Ocean. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, The Best American Poetry, and many other publications. She is assistant professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore.

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691181446
ISBN 13 
9780691181448
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Número de páginas
86
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9780691181431: Stet: Poems: 139 (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

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ISBN 10:  0691181438 ISBN 13:  9780691181431
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 2018
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