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The Commandrine and Other Poems - by Joyelle McSweeney (Paperback)

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  • The brilliance of Joyelle McSweeney's poems is a given; what remains delightfully open to negotiation are its methodologies and its mien.
  • About the Author: Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, stories, novels, essays, translation and plays, including the poetry collections The Red Bird, The Commandrine and Other Poems, Percussion Grenade, Toxicon & Arachne, and Death Styles; the novel Flet, the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks, which inaugurated the Scalapino Prize for Women Playwrights, and the essay collection The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (a work of decadent ecopoetics).
  • 61 Pages
  • Poetry, American

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About the Book



A verse-play that tells the story of sailors Zest, Coast, Ivory, Irish, and their run-in with the Devil.



Book Synopsis



The brilliance of Joyelle McSweeney's poems is a given; what remains delightfully open to negotiation are its methodologies and its mien. In her second book McSweeney finds her subjects in the long form; The Commandrine is a verse-play that in nine scenes tells the story of sailors Zest, Coast, Ivory, and Irish, and their run-in with the Devil.



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"'Shall I exercise my command?' asks the commandrine, making it clear that this poem, and the rest of this nervy collection, has that most fundamental question of art making at stake: What constitutes the authority of the artist? McSweeney offers no real answer to the ancient unanswerable, but raises the question in a manner as convincing as it is playful."--Publishers Weekly



About the Author



Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, stories, novels, essays, translation and plays, including the poetry collections The Red Bird, The Commandrine and Other Poems, Percussion Grenade, Toxicon & Arachne, and Death Styles; the novel Flet, the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks, which inaugurated the Scalapino Prize for Women Playwrights, and the essay collection The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (a work of decadent ecopoetics). With Johannes Göransson, she co-edits the international press Action Books, publishing such authors as Raúl Zurita, Hiromi Ito, Josué Guébo and Kim Hyesoon, while supporting translators like Daniel Borzutzky, Don Mee Choi, Katerine Hedeen, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Michelle Gil-Montero, Jeffrey Angles, and many others.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.32 Inches (H) x 5.8 Inches (W) x .24 Inches (D)
Weight: .27 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 61
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Fence Books
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Joyelle McSweeney
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 2004
TCIN: 1003613863
UPC: 9780974090931
Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-4332
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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