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- ISBN
- 156689526X
- EAN
- 9781566895262
- Date of Publication
- 2018-11-01
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Spectra
- Artist
- Toliver, Ashley
- Brand
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- Colour
- N/A
- Book Title
- Spectra
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- American / African American, Women Authors, General, Subjects & Themes / Family
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
ISBN-10
156689526X
ISBN-13
9781566895262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038745007
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spectra
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
American / African American, Women Authors, General, Subjects & Themes / Family
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-004535
Reviews
Finalist for the Believer Book Award in Poetry "Testing the bounds of relationships and identity, Toliver displays her linguistic gifts in poems that resist egotism and startle with their intimacy." --Publishers Weekly,starred review "Ashley Toliver's collection pushes at the elastic boundaries of the self, the domestic and natural worlds, revealing a porousness that could serve us well as an ethic rooted in connection." --Little Infinite "Like hands running over a strange surface in a dark room, the language of Ashley Toliver's mesmerizing debut collection, Spectra, is constantly searching--the phrases, logics, and images coalescing only to disperse and transmogrify: 'I say to the dark / look / everything is turning / into everything else / moth shuttled inside / an empty glass / paper slid over the mouth.' In 'Housekeeping,' the linked series of prose poems that run through the first half of the book, the poems take on a dioramic quality, tableaux vivants marrying the domestic interiors of a life with the natural world. Toliver's innovative, open forms and imploring phrases accommodate the linked intricacies of mothering and loss. While reading Spectra I was reminded that feeling one's way through the unknown can itself become a kind of unparalleled knowing." --Claudia Rankine "Here is a book full of careful attention to what has been called the natural world, how it begins in the poet's own body, ravels into a house, a marriage, and extends out into the continents. Like those of Bishop's mapmakers, Ashley Toliver's colors are 'more delicate than the historians.' They are also certain, meticulous, and--it must be said--just absolutely beautiful. Reading Spectra makes me feel like Toliver has stitched a new constellation into my mind; she has written that much dark, that much light." --Heather Christle, author of Heliopause, "Here is a book full of careful attention to what has been called the natural world, how it begins in the poet's own body, ravels into a house, a marriage, and extends out into the continents. Like those of Bishop's mapmakers, Ashley Toliver's colors are 'more delicate than the historians.' They are also certain, meticulous, and--it must be said--just absolutely beautiful. Reading Spectra makes me feel like Toliver has stitched a new constellation into my mind; she has written that much dark, that much light." --Heather Christle, author of Heliopause "Like hands running over a strange surface in a dark room, the language of Ashley Toliver's mesmerizing debut collection, Spectra, is constantly searching--the phrases, logics, and images coalescing only to disperse and transmogrify: 'I say to the dark / look / everything is turning / into everything else / moth shuttled inside / an empty glass / paper slid over the mouth.' In 'Housekeeping,' the linked series of prose poems that run through the first half of the book, the poems take on a dioramic quality, tableaux vivants marrying the domestic interiors of a life with the natural world. Toliver's innovative, open forms and imploring phrases accommodate the linked intricacies of mothering and loss. While reading Spectra I was reminded that feeling one's way through the unknown can itself become a kind of unparalleled knowing." --Claudia Rankine, Finalist for the Believer Book Award in Poetry "Testing the bounds of relationships and identity, Toliver displays her linguistic gifts in poems that resist egotism and startle with their intimacy." --Publishers Weekly,starred review A powerful first book . . . a worthwhile collection." --Massachusetts Review "This book embodies the tenderness with which we can, inside and above our own vulnerabilities and flaws, choose to observe our inevitable corporeal selves." --Tarpulin Sky "Ashley Toliver's collection pushes at the elastic boundaries of the self, the domestic and natural worlds, revealing a porousness that could serve us well as an ethic rooted in connection." --Little Infinite "Like hands running over a strange surface in a dark room, the language of Ashley Toliver's mesmerizing debut collection, Spectra, is constantly searching--the phrases, logics, and images coalescing only to disperse and transmogrify: 'I say to the dark / look / everything is turning / into everything else / moth shuttled inside / an empty glass / paper slid over the mouth.' In 'Housekeeping,' the linked series of prose poems that run through the first half of the book, the poems take on a dioramic quality, tableaux vivants marrying the domestic interiors of a life with the natural world. Toliver's innovative, open forms and imploring phrases accommodate the linked intricacies of mothering and loss. While reading Spectra I was reminded that feeling one's way through the unknown can itself become a kind of unparalleled knowing." --Claudia Rankine "Here is a book full of careful attention to what has been called the natural world, how it begins in the poet's own body, ravels into a house, a marriage, and extends out into the continents. Like those of Bishop's mapmakers, Ashley Toliver's colors are 'more delicate than the historians.' They are also certain, meticulous, and--it must be said--just absolutely beautiful. Reading Spectra makes me feel like Toliver has stitched a new constellation into my mind; she has written that much dark, that much light." --Heather Christle, author of Heliopause, Praise for Spectra Finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalist for the 2020 Oregon Book Awards Finalist for the 2019 Believer Book Award in Poetry "Testing the bounds of relationships and identity, Toliver displays her linguistic gifts in poems that resist egotism and startle with their intimacy." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "A powerful first book . . . a worthwhile collection." -- Massachusetts Review "This book embodies the tenderness with which we can, inside and above our own vulnerabilities and flaws, choose to observe our inevitable corporeal selves." -- Tarpaulin Sky "Ashley Toliver's collection pushes at the elastic boundaries of the self, the domestic and natural worlds, revealing a porousness that could serve us well as an ethic rooted in connection." -- Little Infinite "Like hands running over a strange surface in a dark room, the language of Ashley Toliver's mesmerizing debut collection. . . . While reading Spectra I was reminded that feeling one's way through the unknown can itself become a kind of unparalleled knowing." --Claudia Rankine "Reading Spectra makes me feel like Toliver has stitched a new constellation into my mind; she has written that much dark, that much light." --Heather Christle, author of Heliopause
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Synopsis
Generous, penetrating, relentlessly sonic poems that record the creative potential of the body and the boundaries of the self., "Housekeeping" Tepid blow cools the liquid to hunch and wind. A box arrives and loaded spills order across the Jloor. Living room, dining room, room of tinder and kindling. The joints grind to aspirin under the whitest application. At night I place oil over all the door hooks to make for swifter leaving. Kerosene opening, I saw it coming and took Jlight. Ashley Toliver is the author of the chapbook Ideal Machine . Her work has been supported by fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts, Cave Canem, and the Academy of American Poets. She received her MFA from Brown University in 2013.
LC Classification Number
PS3620.O3283A6 2018
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