The Golden Road

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8101-2859-0
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

A central theme of <em>The Golden Road</em> is the prolonged dementia of the poet’s husband. But Rachel Hadas’s new collection sets the loneliness of progressive loss in the context of the continuities that sustain her: reading, writing, and memory; familiar places; and the rich texture of a life fully lived. These poems are meticulously observed, nimble in their deployment of a range of forms, and capacious in their range of reference. They take us to a Greek island, to Carl Schurz Park in New York City, to an old house in Vermont, to a performance of <em>Macbeth</em>, and to the neurology floor of a hospital. Hadas finds beauty in all those places. <em>The Golden Road</em> laments, but it also celebrates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hadas, Rachel

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Rachel Hadas</strong> is a professor of English at the Newark College of Arts and Sciences of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is also a poet, translator, and essayist. Her most recent books are <em>The Ache of Appetite</em> (2010), a collection of poems; and <em>Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry</em> (2011).