Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780892555369)

This career-spanning volume portrays in stunning fashion Lisa Russ Spaar's exquisite obsessions: spiritual hunger, lingual pleasures, bodily decay. The "ringleader of a stunning lexicon" (Shenandoah), Spaar's poems are both colloquial and sumptuous, hyper-attuned to contemporary idiom while rooted in language's primordial, earthy roots. Whether writing of the erotic or the divine, of anorexia or insomnia, of fairy tale or literary history, Spaar's writing is unmistakably her own, a trove of music and magic like nothing else in contemporary poetry. In Madrigalia, her oeuvre is on full display; it is a showcase of her indispensable poetic gifts, a tribute to a writer both ascetic and ecstatic.

Author: Lisa Russ Spaar
ISBN-10: 089255536X
ISBN-13: 9780892555369
Publisher: Persea Books
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2021
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d