Summons (Poems)
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Product Details
Author:
Deborah Tall
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Publisher:
Sarabande Books (November 1, 2000)
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781889330501
ISBN-10:
1889330507
Weight:
7.36oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9" x 0.3"
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Folder:
CONSORTIUM
List Price:
$12.95
Case Pack:
108
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$11.14
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
60
Imprint:
Sarabande Books
Overview
In her fourth book of poems, Deborah Tall serves up, as Charles Simic remarks, "a huge feast of words and images." Spare, charged, eloquently complex, her poems distill emotion to its precipitate. In "Cottage by the Beach, Normandy," loneliness is this: A dozen tulips/erect in the centerpiece,/ hold their allotment of empty air. In "Winter Solstice," war yields, A hillside of markers,/a showroom of tombs./The bushes fruited with ice.
Summons is a call to speak out—in the face of violence, cruelty, and loss—and a summoning up of the forces of nature and humanity that console.
"The art of prosody, of which Deborah Tall is a master, is a jeweler’s art. It is about ascertaining the weight of words, measuring each one of them in turn against silence and time. . . . As we read, line by line, sounds turn into music, words and images grow in meaning. If you believe this is what all poets do anyway, you are wrong. Only the best of them know how to make us reread with increasing pleasure a few lines of poetry."—from the foreword by Charles Simic
Marketing Plans:
o Author tour NYC, Boston, NY State and New England
o Advertisements in key literary and trade magazines
Deborah Tall is the author of three previous books of poems (most recently Come Wind, Come Weather from State Street Press) and two books of nonfiction: The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island (Atheneum, 1986) and From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place (Knopf, 1993). Tall is the editor of the Seneca Review and co-editor of the anthology The Poet’s Notebook (Norton, 1995). She has taught writing and literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges since 1982 and lives in Ithaca, New York.
Summons is a call to speak out—in the face of violence, cruelty, and loss—and a summoning up of the forces of nature and humanity that console.
"The art of prosody, of which Deborah Tall is a master, is a jeweler’s art. It is about ascertaining the weight of words, measuring each one of them in turn against silence and time. . . . As we read, line by line, sounds turn into music, words and images grow in meaning. If you believe this is what all poets do anyway, you are wrong. Only the best of them know how to make us reread with increasing pleasure a few lines of poetry."—from the foreword by Charles Simic
Marketing Plans:
o Author tour NYC, Boston, NY State and New England
o Advertisements in key literary and trade magazines
Deborah Tall is the author of three previous books of poems (most recently Come Wind, Come Weather from State Street Press) and two books of nonfiction: The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island (Atheneum, 1986) and From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place (Knopf, 1993). Tall is the editor of the Seneca Review and co-editor of the anthology The Poet’s Notebook (Norton, 1995). She has taught writing and literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges since 1982 and lives in Ithaca, New York.
