Blue Yodel - (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry) by Eleanor Stanford (Paperback)

About the Book

"These poems take the reader from Mexico City to West Philadelphia to Karachi. The works wade into the difficult joys of mothering, self-exploration, and romantic entanglement in midlife. Throughout, Eleanor Stanford embraces the mysticism of Hildegard of Bingen, the abjection of Tammy Wynette, and the wry self-appraisal of Sylvia Plath, fashioning it all into something entirely its own." --

Book Synopsis

A new poetry collection from Eleanor Stanford that is musical, sexy, and darkly funny.

These poems take the reader from Mexico City to West Philadelphia to Karachi. The works wade into the difficult joys of mothering, self-exploration, and romantic entanglement in midlife. Throughout, Eleanor Stanford embraces the mysticism of Hildegard of Bingen, the abjection of Tammy Wynette, and the wry self-appraisal of Sylvia Plath, fashioning it all into something entirely its own.

Review Quotes

"Stanford is the poet laureate of distance. These astute and acutely crafted poems range across time and across space and expertly excavate the gap between body and mind. They are both catalyzed and haunted by transience, domesticity, sex, and all things scholastic. They draw in Anaïs Nin, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir, Hildegard of Bingen, and more. They expertly articulate the condition of expectation while expecting absolutely nothing, and while defying the reader's expectations at every turn."-- "Natalie Shapero, author of Hard Child"

About the Author

Eleanor Stanford is the author of three previous books of poetry from Carnegie Mellon University Press, most recently The Imaginal Marriage. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Iowa Review, and Poetry, among many others. She lives in Pennsylvania.