Author : Marianne Boruch
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595340904
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Book Synopsis In the Blue Pharmacy by : Marianne Boruch
Download or read book In the Blue Pharmacy written by Marianne Boruch and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here are sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and a host of fascinating topics that come into the wide range of Marianne Boruch’s attention. She examines how the imagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of poets from Elizabeth Bishop to Theodore Roethke, from Russell Edson to Larry Levis, from Walt Whitman to Eavan Boland. Combining a richly associative personal style with original insights on poetic texts and historical and cultural musing, Boruch considers how the atomic bomb changed William Carlos Williams’s deepest ambition for poetry, and how Edison’s listening, through his famous deafness, informs our sense of the poetic line. Other essays explore how the car—its danger and solitude—helps us understand American poetry or how Dvorak and Whitman shared darker things than their curious love for trains. Poetry transforms, changing over time in the work of individual poets as well as changing us as we read it or write it. Boruch’s writing has a musical, incantatory style, creating a mood in which many of her subjects are immersed. Her approach isn’t meant to fix or crystallize her ideas in any hard and fast light, but rather to present the music of her thinking.