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Scaffolding
Elena Rivera
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Description for Scaffolding
hardcover. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly reflecting life in New York City. In this, her third book of poetry, Elena Rivera uses the English sonnet as a scaffold to explore daily events, observations, conversations, thoughts, words, and memories--and to reflect on the work of earlier poets and the relationship between life and literature. Guided by formal and syllabic constraints, the poems become in part an exploration of how form affects content and how other poets have approached the sonnet. The poems, which ... Read more
Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly reflecting life in New York City. In this, her third book of poetry, Elena Rivera uses the English sonnet as a scaffold to explore daily events, observations, conversations, thoughts, words, and memories--and to reflect on the work of earlier poets and the relationship between life and literature. Guided by formal and syllabic constraints, the poems become in part an exploration of how form affects content and how other poets have approached the sonnet. The poems, which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691172255
SKU
V9780691172255
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About Elena Rivera
Elena Rivera is a poet and translator. She is the author of The Perforated Map and Unknowne Land, and her poems have appeared in the Nation, Denver Quarterly, the New York Times, and many other publications. Her translation of Bernard Noel's The Rest of the Voyage won the Robert Fagles Translation Prize. She was born in Mexico City, spent her ... Read more
Reviews for Scaffolding
"Scaffolding is a profound meditation. . . . [O]ne cannot but fall in love with the book, and its city, that Rivera has given us."
-Ankit Basnet, Cincinnati Review
-Ankit Basnet, Cincinnati Review