The Violence |
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Author:
| Paquin, Ethan |
ISBN: | 978-0-916272-85-2 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
Publisher: | Ahsahta Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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Poetry. Ethan Paquin's third book is a sprawling meditation touching on the loss of love and commitment, the painfulness of memory, and the disorientation as well as the consolations of travel. The poems of THE VIOLENCE contain a rawness of emotion and clarity of feeling rare among writers of Paquin's generation. Where form plays a part, it is likely to be exploded: the poet's page becomes more of a canvas than a neutral vehicle. "THE VIOLENCE is a compact of determining forces both...
More DescriptionPoetry. Ethan Paquin's third book is a sprawling meditation touching on the loss of love and commitment, the painfulness of memory, and the disorientation as well as the consolations of travel. The poems of THE VIOLENCE contain a rawness of emotion and clarity of feeling rare among writers of Paquin's generation. Where form plays a part, it is likely to be exploded: the poet's page becomes more of a canvas than a neutral vehicle. "THE VIOLENCE is a compact of determining forces both poet and language must survive, whether they be fact of a day's events or else lodged in the very fabric of language itself. It is Ethan Paquin's power that he can admit these furies and survive them"--Robert Creeley.