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- Becoming Bone : Poems on the Life of Celia Thaxter (1836-1894)
- Publication Name
- Becoming Bone
- Title
- Becoming Bone
- Subtitle
- Poems on the Life of Celia Thaxter (1836-1894)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781557287977
- ISBN
- 9781557287977
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 30/07/2005
- Release Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Item Weight
- 5 oz
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Topic
- Women Authors, General
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Number of Pages
- 104 Pages
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In the long tradition of biography-in-poetry collections, Annie Boutelle's first collection probes the layered life of one of nineteenth-century America's most popular poets, who is now almost forgotten. The Celia Thaxter who speaks these poems disturbs the placid myth created around her public persona, and focuses on the fierce mysteries and ironies that frame her. Boutelle carefully reveals Thaxter's childhood on the stark Isles of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast; the trap of a Victorian marriage; the struggle to invent herself as writer and painter; her celebrated circle of friends, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Childe Hassam; and the hard-won serenity of her last decade. Clear, airy, crystalline, these poems move us into an elemental world where "nothing is left but water, / air, and the uncertain space between." With restraint and lyric tenderness, Boutelle leads us toward a woman who shifts from pose to necessary pose, who survives in these pages with intelligence and grace: "The grave / flesh melts. What's left / is light as bone."
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Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
ISBN-10
155728797x
ISBN-13
9781557287977
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038413995
Product Key Features
Book Title
Becoming Bone : Poems on the Life of Celia Thaxter (1836-1894)
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
104 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
5 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3602.O893b43 2005
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"In a language spare, exact, essential as necessity itself, 'past flattering chatter, hypocrisies lush as weed on harbor rock,' Annie Boutelle tears aside the flowery veils of feminine concealment of another age, to give voice to the inner life of an islanded soul." --Eleanor Wilner, author of The Girl with Bees in Her Hair and Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems "This is a magnificent secret history--of a time we now know very little, in spite of its closeness, and of a remarkable spirit who lived in that time and is now forgotten. The poems are stark, original, lovely, the poetic knowledge terrific. Read this fine book." --Gerald Stern, author of Everything is Burning and American Sonnets "The sorrows and victories of Thaxter's life are conveyed with sensual, sonorous richness and yet understatement. If much of her inner life--like that of so many women (some of them writers)--went unwritten for a time, Becoming Bone has redressed the blankness with empathy, depth, and a keen intelligence." --Mary Jo Salter, author of Open Shutters: Poems and A Kiss in Space: Poems, "Like whaler's scrimshaw, images incised on shell and bone, Annie Boutelle's lines seem etched, indelible--a laser-like intensity transmuting the most intractable materials. In a language spare, exact, essential as necessity itself, 'past flattering chatter, hypocrisies lush as weed on harbor rock,' Annie Boutelle tears aside the flowery veils of feminine concealment of another age, to give voice to the inner life of an islanded soul, the nineteenth-century writer Celia Thaxter." --Eleanor Wilner, author of The Girl with Bees in Her Hair and Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems, In a language spare, exact, essential as necessity itself, ‘past flattering chatter, hypocrisies lush as weed on harbor rock,' Annie Boutelle tears aside the flowery veils of feminine concealment of another age, to give voice to the inner life of an islanded soul." -Eleanor Wilner, author of The Girl with Bees in Her Hair and Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems This is a magnificent secret history-of a time we now know very little, in spite of its closeness, and of a remarkable spirit who lived in that time and is now forgotten. The poems are stark, original, lovely, the poetic knowledge terrific. Read this fine book." -Gerald Stern, author of Everything is Burning and American Sonnets The sorrows and victories of Thaxter's life are conveyed with sensual, sonorous richness and yet understatement. If much of her inner life-like that of so many women (some of them writers)-went unwritten for a time, Becoming Bone has redressed the blankness with empathy, depth, and a keen intelligence." -Mary Jo Salter, author of Open Shutters: Poems and A Kiss in Space: Poems, "Annie Boutelle has chosen, in a reimagining of Thaxter's own voice, to dramatize hints, silences, and the sea. White spaces surround these suggestive poems like the waves crashing around a lighthouse--or as Boutelle writes in Thaxter's persona, 'winds haul themselves, weeping, / against its flanks.' The sorrows and victories of Thaxter's life are conveyed with sensual, sonorous richness and yet understatement. To the very few effective poems about childbirth I know, I would add Boutelle's three brief, intense poems here about the birth of each of Thaxter's children. After the death of her husband, she is pictured 'wrapped // in mourning, a thick black / speck on an unwritten page.' And yet, if much of her inner life--like that of so many women (some of them writers)--went unwritten for a time, Becoming Bone has redressed the blankness with empathy, depth, and a keen intelligence." --Mary Jo Salter, author of Open Shutters: Poems and A Kiss in Space: Poems, "This is a magnificent secret history--of a time we now know very little, in spite of its closeness, and of a remarkable spirit who lived in that time and is now forgotten. The poems are stark, original, lovely, the poetic knowledge terrific. I am convinced that Annie Boutelle is Celia Thaxter; only she (Annie) will not be forgotten. Read this fine book." --Gerald Stern, author of Everything is Burning and American Sonnets
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-000614
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
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Yes
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