Women's Poetry

Poems and Advice
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6238-0
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 88 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Daisy Fried’s third book of poetry is a book of unsettling, unsettled Americans. Fried finds her Americans everywhere, watching Henry Kissinger leave the Louvre, trapped on a Tiber bridge by a crowd of neo-fascist thugs, yearning outside a car detailing garage for a car lit underneath by neon lavender, riding the train with Princeton seniors who have been rejected by recession-bound Wall Street, feeding stray cats drunk at midnight, bitching at her mother in the labour room, shopping with wide-bodied hunters for deer-dismembering band saws in the world’s largest supplier of seasonal camouflage, cursing her cell phone and husband at eighty-five miles an hour, hiding behind the mask of an advice column to proclaim Charles Bukowski “America’s greatest poetess.” There is nothing like this book, because there is nothing in it but America. No comfort, no consolation, no life-affirming pats on the back, no despair about God, no fear or acceptance of death, no irrational exuberance, no guilt or weariness, no misery even in the middle of personal and political crisis. Plenty of humour and plenty of seriousness. Joy. And a new kind of poetry: not nice, but rich and real.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fried, Daisy

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Daisy Fried</strong> is the author of <em>My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again</em>, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and <em>She Didn’t Mean to Do It</em>, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She has received Guggenheim, Hodder, and Pew Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and the Cohen Award from Ploughshares. Fried reviews poetry books for the <em>New York Times, Poetry</em>, and the <em>Threepenny Review</em> and was awarded <em>Poetry</em> magazine’s Editor’s Prize. She has taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College, USA and in Warren Wilson College’s low-residency MFA program.