Slantwise - Adcock, Betty
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Leaning toward Emily Dickinson's advice to tell it slant, the poems in Betty Adcock's SLANTWISE approach our losses, including such disasters as September 11 and the crash of the space shuttle Columbia, through happenings outside the public viewasides, as it were, from the primary moment. The title faintly echoes American slang, as in "wisecrack," which might be applied to poems here that skewer literary critics, human self-regard, and the poet herself. Reflecting also the folk speech of Adcock's native East Texas, where much of her work has been set, the title suggests a middle way among…mehr

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Leaning toward Emily Dickinson's advice to tell it slant, the poems in Betty Adcock's SLANTWISE approach our losses, including such disasters as September 11 and the crash of the space shuttle Columbia, through happenings outside the public viewasides, as it were, from the primary moment. The title faintly echoes American slang, as in "wisecrack," which might be applied to poems here that skewer literary critics, human self-regard, and the poet herself. Reflecting also the folk speech of Adcock's native East Texas, where much of her work has been set, the title suggests a middle way among images of rising and falling, tropes that can confound the directions of grief and praise. From the strangely epic fall of one longleaf pine needle in deep woods to the widening contexts of the Twin Towers' collapse and a spacecraft's deadly descent, these poems mourn, celebrate, rage, and remember. SLANTWISE fulfills the hope Adcock once expressed: "to tell the truth and find that it is music."
Autorenporträt
Betty Adcock is the author of five books of poetry: Intervale, The Difficult Wheel, Beholdings, Nettles, and Walking Out. A recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Poets' Prize, the North Carolina Medal for Literature, the Texas Institute of Letters Prize for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Adcock teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Betty Adcock is the author of five books of poetry: Intervale, The Difficult Wheel, Beholdings, Nettles, and Walking Out. A recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Poets' Prize, the North Carolina Medal for Literature, the Texas Institute of Letters Prize for Poetry, the Hanes Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and Guggenheim Fellowship, Adcock teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.