Wendy Salinger

Listen (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Listen is a memoir of voices, the voices of parents that linger in the ears of children until the day when those children are able to sound their own note. A domineering father and a professor of languages and literature in the 1950s and '60s, Victor has four women trapped in his orbit-his long-suffering wife and his three well-behaved daughters. "Teacher, poet, translator" is how he wants his gravestone to read, and in life he is dedicated to passing on to his family the great cultural achievements of western civilization-poetry, philosophy, religion, music, art. But he leaves darker gifts as well, in particular to his daughter Wendy the most traumatic legacy of all: incest. A major achievement and a stunning debut, Listen is about how families shape their memories and how even things that are never spoken about have potent echoes. It's also a memoir that chronicles a poet's apprenticeship to words, the story of a daughter who listened and who, with the gift for poetry her father gave her, learned to translate the darkest secrets of their past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781596918993
• Artikelnr.: 38328454

Autorenporträt

Wendy Salinger is the author of Folly River, winner of The National Poetry Series, and a graduate of Duke and the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a fellow at The MacDowell Colony. She directs the Schools Project at the 92nd St. Y's Unterberg Poetry Center in New York.