Description
Always spirited and elegant, by turns witty and meditative, Catharine Savage Brosman's Under the Pergola contemplates Louisiana, past and present, before traveling a broader path that crosses Colorado landscapes and the island of Sicily.
In her eighth collection of poems, Brosman evokes the Pelican State's trees, birds, rivers, swamps, bayous, New Orleans scenes, historic houses, and colorful characters. She also recounts, in free verse, formal verse, and one prose poem, the misdeeds of Katrina as she and others experienced them.
Other poems range widely, from reflections on writers Samuel Johnson, Paul Claudel, Andr Malraux, and James Dickey to quiet meditations on the American West, Odysseus, fruits and vegetables, and the recent light years of the poet's life -- which she characterizes as silken... slipping smoothly off like a gown.
Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 09/02/2011
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.57w x 0.28d
ISBN13: 9780807138809
ISBN10: 0807138800
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Catharine Savage Brosman, who now lives in Houston, is professor emerita of French at Tulane University. She is the author of numerous books of French literary history and criticism, two volumes of nonfiction prose, and seven collections of poetry, including most recently Range of Light and Breakwater.