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Temper - (Pitt Poetry) by Beth Bachmann (Paperback)

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  • Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament.
  • About the Author: Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two prior books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Do Not Rise, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award.
  • 80 Pages
  • Poetry, American
  • Series Name: Pitt Poetry

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About the Book



Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Lynn Emanuel Winner of the 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award The elegies in Temper interrogate the way grief leaves us confrontational, in a state of fracture.



Book Synopsis



Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament. The poems are mercilessly recursive, placing pressure on the lyric as a mode of both the elegiac and the ecstatic. The result is an enforced silence, urgent with grief.



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"Temper is an unforgettable first book. Embodied in a poetry that quakes with sorrow one moment and is steely with forensic detail the next, Temper's account of a murder encompasses the polarities of flesh and spirit, love and horror. What is most compelling is the way Bachmann presides over the drama with a courage and restraint that manifest themselves as the beauty of these poems."-- "Lynn Emanuel"

A thorough and vivid emotional narrative, taking the reader to an unsettling depth of personal tragedy at breakneck speed.-- "Oxford American"

An often haunting image of time juttering forward and back ceaselessly, lives never completely explained or tragedy never finally understood.-- "Heavy Bear"

Here we have metamorphosis, resonance, transfromation, the alchemy of art. Bachmann is able by a few simple direct gestures . . . to connect her personal grief and tragedy to the whole tradition of English (and Western) verse and to the poetic impulse itself to make beauty out of sorrow.-- "Poetry Magazine"

In her lush economies, psychic darkness, and imperative forthrightness, Bachmann is clearly an heir of Louise Gluck and there's a trace of Whitman here, too . . . The grief in 'Temper' is raw, relentless, and unadorned; in the crucible of Bachmann's sensibility, this sorrow becomes gracious force.-- "On the Seawall"

In its clarity of voice-stark, startling and objective-Temper reminds me of Louise Gluck's First Born. Bachmann works the charged margins of the mythic imagination, but with a terrifying difference. For her, myth is also fact: a murdered sister, an accused father, and an inconsolable mother. A marvelous, compelling, and disquieting addition to contemporary poetry.-- "Michael Collier"

Nothing short of a stunning debut. Rarely have I felt so compelled by a collection, so utterly incapable of turning away.-- "Poet Lore"

Restraint and abandon ride side-by-side through these fiercely distilled poems--again and again they bear reluctant witness to the shadows hovering around the edges of every moment. A beautiful unease suffuses these poems--they make me aware I'm alive, and certain of nothing. A stunning debut.-- "Nick Flynn"

Tempered by silence and grappling for meaning beyond story, beyond what is spoken or known, these poems recall absences everywhere--the losses by which we are plagued, what we must endure.-- "Natasha Trethewey"

The difficulties of making art about violence might have churned the poems into melodrama or diffused them into abstraction, but Bachmann's temperate approach yields work that is eerily calm and anything but bloodless. Tough and impressive, 'Temper' leaves its mark.-- "The Georgia Review"



About the Author



Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two prior books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Do Not Rise, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. Poems from CEASE received the Virginia Quarterly Review Emily Clark Balch Prize. Each fall, Bachmann serves as Writer in Residence in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.1 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)
Weight: .26 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Pitt Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Genre: Poetry
Number of Pages: 80
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Beth Bachmann
Language: English
Street Date: August 31, 2009
TCIN: 93282760
UPC: 9780822960409
Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-9687
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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