Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems

This career-spanning volume portrays in stunning fashion Lisa Russ Spaar's exquisite obsessions: spiritual hunger, lingual pleasures, bodily decay. The "ringleader of a stunning lexicon" (Shenandoah), Spaar's poems are both colloquial and sumptuous, hyper-attuned to contemporary idiom while rooted in language's primordial, earthy roots. Whether writing of the erotic or the divine, of anorexia or insomnia, of fairy tale or literary history, Spaar's writing is unmistakably her own, a trove of music and magic like nothing else in contemporary poetry. In Madrigalia, her oeuvre is on full display; it is a showcase of her indispensable poetic gifts, a tribute to a writer both ascetic and ecstatic.

Author: Lisa Russ Spaar
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: 11/16/2021
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780892555369
ISBN10: 089255536X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | American | General