Tourist in Hell (Phoenix Poets)
by Eleanor Wilner
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Eleanor Wilner's poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In their litany of loss, in their outrage and sorrow, they retain the joy in life, mercy for the mortal condition, and praise for the plenitude of nature and the gifts of human artistry. As with her six earlier collections, these poems are drawn from the transpersonal realm of history and cultural memory, but they display an increasing horror at the bloody show more repetitions of history, its service of death, and the destructive savagery of power separated from intelligence and restraint. The poems describe "a sordid drama" in which the players wear "eyeless masks," and the only thing time changes is the name of the enemy. Underneath it all, driving "the art that" in both senses "keeps nothing at bay," swim the enormous formal energies of life, the transitive figure that moves on in the depths, something glimpsed in the first light, something stronger than hope. "It is a relief to come across work in which a moral intelligence is matched by aesthetic refinement, in which the craft of the poems is equal to their concerns."--Christian Wiman, Poetry show lessTags
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Eleanor Wilner is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, most recently Tourist in Hell and The Girl with Bees in Her Hair. In 2019, she received the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, the highest award presented by the Poetry Society of America. Her other awards include the Juniper Prize, three Pushcart show more Prizes, and a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, and her work appears in many anthologies, including The Best American Poetry. She teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and fives in Philadelphia. show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Music, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 811.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999
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- PS3573 .I45673 .T68 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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