il cuore - the heart: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

by Kathleen Fraser

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il cuore : the heart is a major new collection of poetry by Kathleen Fraser, one of the most significant poets of the last generation and a writer of unusual courage and inventiveness. From the intimacy of early poems to the syntactic play of her much-praised book, when new time folds up (1993), Fraser's work examines fields of possibility, where the visual, theoretical, and lyrical collide. This book provides a generous selection of work both new and old, tracing the development of her show more poetics over the last three decades. Rich with detail, these poems radicalize intention by embracing error, as in "boundayr," and reassert language innovation as a feminist strategy. They lead us toward "the infinity of a door only slightly ajar" and have established Fraser as one of America's preeminent experimental writers. show less

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Kathleen Fraser was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on March 22, 1935. She attended Occidental College in Los Angeles before moving to New York City to work as an editorial associate for Mademoiselle magazine. Her first book, Change of Address, was published in 1966. Her other collections of poetry included What I Want; New Shoes; Each Next; Something show more (Even Human Voices) in the Foreground, a Lake; Notes Preceding Trust; When New Time Folds Up; Il Cuore: The Heart: Selected Poems, 1970-1995; and Movable TYYPE. Her children's book entitled, Stilts, Somersaults, and Headstands: Game Poems Based on a Painting, was published in 1968. A collection of her essays, Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity, was published in 2000. From 1972 to 1992, Fraser was a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. She also taught at the University of Iowa, Reed College, and in the graduate writing program of California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In the early 1980s, she founded and edited the journal HOW(ever). She died on February 5, 2019 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS
811.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry20th Century1945-1999
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PS3556 .R353 .C86Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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