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Groundwork
Amanda Jernigan
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Description for Groundwork
Paperback. Groundwork heralds an important new poetic voice, stock to buy early and hold. Num Pages: 60 pages, B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
The three sequences of Groundwork comprise a sophisticated reworking of European myth on the order of Yeats's The Tower. The first is situated by an archaeological dig in modern-day Tunisia, the second by the Garden of Eden, the third by the waters and islands of Homer's Odyssey. Together they form a devastating critique of contemporary aesthetics. Few poets today are versed in the archetypes that inform the European tradition, and even fewer can manipulate them with the grace of Amanda Jernigan. With rivers of exquisite prosody and a panoramic intellectual scope, her Groundwork has recharted the poetic landscape -- ... Read more
The three sequences of Groundwork comprise a sophisticated reworking of European myth on the order of Yeats's The Tower. The first is situated by an archaeological dig in modern-day Tunisia, the second by the Garden of Eden, the third by the waters and islands of Homer's Odyssey. Together they form a devastating critique of contemporary aesthetics. Few poets today are versed in the archetypes that inform the European tradition, and even fewer can manipulate them with the grace of Amanda Jernigan. With rivers of exquisite prosody and a panoramic intellectual scope, her Groundwork has recharted the poetic landscape -- ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
60
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
60
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781926845258
SKU
V9781926845258
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Ref
99-1
About Amanda Jernigan
Amanda Jernigan is a poet, playwright, essayist, and editor. Her works have been published in Canada, the United States and Germany, and are represented in the online archive of the poetry foundation.
Reviews for Groundwork
"Amanda Jernigan possesses daunting formal skill ... her lines have an emotional intensity that is no less memorable for being understated. And she has a light, perfecting touch."
David Orr, NPR.org "There is a larger harmonic vision at work... each of Groundwork's poems suddenly emerges as a unique hymn running from the earliest myths right up to the present."
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David Orr, NPR.org "There is a larger harmonic vision at work... each of Groundwork's poems suddenly emerges as a unique hymn running from the earliest myths right up to the present."
Quill & Quire ... Read more