| Author: | Jeanne Marie Beaumont | ISBN: | 9780393292961 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company | Publication: | July 17, 1999 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jeanne Marie Beaumont |
| ISBN: | 9780393292961 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication: | July 17, 1999 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Language: | English |
Winner of the l996 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by William Matthews.
"This collection of beguiling poems . . . takes as its avenue into experience the palpable, quotidian objects of the intimate environment. A barometer, an arrangement of flowers, a vase, a carpet, a pyramid of oranges in a city marketplace are seen and then entered as one might enter the action of a film. . . . There is something of the child's wondrous way of seeing the world that electrifies." — Boston Globe "Jeanne Beaumont's poems are smart and full of feeling, heartbreakingly in love with the snares and clarities of the language she writes in, and lit throughout by a kind of wry wonder." — William Matthews "How rare to discover so sly and disarming, so luminous and compelling a debut." — David St. John
Winner of the l996 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by William Matthews.
"This collection of beguiling poems . . . takes as its avenue into experience the palpable, quotidian objects of the intimate environment. A barometer, an arrangement of flowers, a vase, a carpet, a pyramid of oranges in a city marketplace are seen and then entered as one might enter the action of a film. . . . There is something of the child's wondrous way of seeing the world that electrifies." — Boston Globe "Jeanne Beaumont's poems are smart and full of feeling, heartbreakingly in love with the snares and clarities of the language she writes in, and lit throughout by a kind of wry wonder." — William Matthews "How rare to discover so sly and disarming, so luminous and compelling a debut." — David St. John
