Barbara Lau

The Long Surprise

Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contest Judge X. J. Kennedy heralds Barbara Lau's The Long Surprise as "full of unexpectedness . . . feeling and verve" and "a confident step onto the main stage of American poetry." Adds Eleanor Wilner, "Here is a poet of candor, vigor and daylight vision, who loves without illusion . . . whose ear is unerring, and whose startlingly fresh images push up like 'wild mint . . . through sidewalks.'" Posing questions about the making of art ("Is chaos / counterpoint to art, or instead, / its tuning fork?"), marriage ("How little is enough?"), faith, family, and selfhood ("Where does she begin / and I end?"), Lau explores "how life announces itself" at our uneasy turn of the century. Her poems witness both the horrific -- the loss of a child, the greed of the impoverished, the motives behind child prostitution -- and common pleasures "so dense they sedate you."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Texas Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 293mm x 111mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9781881515357
• ISBN-10: 1881515354
• Artikelnr.: 21471968

Autorenporträt

BARBARA LAU has spent most of her life in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, where she worked as a magazine writer and publications director. She now teaches English and creative writing at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson and an MA in English from the University of Illinois. Her poetry has appeared in Field, Spoon River Poetry Review, Karamu, Southern Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Iron Horse Literary Review, and other journals, plus the anthology When I Grow Old I Shall Wear Purple. She lives with her husband, composer and jazz guitarist Don Chamberlain, and daughters Grace and Lily. The Long Surprise is her first book of poetry.