Resort and Other Poems - A Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary
1st Carnegie Mellon University Press Edition
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When Patricia Hampl's first book of poems, Woman Before an Aquarium, appeared in 1978, Choice called it "a generous . . . first collection," and Virginia Quarterly Review characterized her work as "a poetry of accumulated details, strikingly presented." Now, after the success of her brilliant prose memoir, A Romantic Education, which won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, Hampl has taken her poetry a step further in her new collection, Resort. The classical themes of beauty and love, loss and memory have always formed the core of Hampl's work. Here, they are treated in a series of shorter poems and then gathered powerfully into the long title poem of the collection. Set in a small, tumbledown cabin on the North Shore of Lake Superior, Resort follows the season of summer as Hampl explores a period of solitude following a loss, employing as a touchstone the image of the wild rose as it blooms and withers. In essence a poem about healing oneself through paying attention to the world outside, Resort has been called by poet Sandra McPherson "major, richly entangled, ebullient . . . all of a sudden my favorite long poem."
Book information
ISBN: | 9780887483554 |
Publisher: | Carnegie Mellon University Press |
Imprint: | Carnegie Mellon University Press |
Pub date: | 12 Apr 2001 |
Edition: | 1st Carnegie Mellon University Press Edition |
DEWEY: | 811.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 79 |
Weight: | 204g |
Height: | 231mm |
Width: | 137mm |
Spine width: | 7mm |