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A Carnage in the Lovetrees: Poems

By (author) Richard Greenfield






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Surely, all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, said Rilke. A Carnage in the Lovetrees begins at the moment the speaker reaches this realization. He resolves then to rebuild a world caught in the crosshairs of repeated annihilation, regrounding love as the only viable stratagem for survival. Richard Greenfield's sequence of poems searches for a way to live in the aftermath of private trauma and public disaster. It represents a struggle to reconcile the historical with the present and to find a language that allows the speaker to endure past calamities. These relentless, acrobatic, and self-aware poems resist settling for easy solutions, or even closure, but instead push toward the difficult compromise of the livable.

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Publisher | University of California Press
Published date | 30 Apr 2003
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Format | Paperback
Pages | 80
Dimensions | 210 x 140 x 6mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 18g
ISBN | 978-0-5202-3809-1
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BISAC | poetry / american


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