
The Ruined Elegance : Poems
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Description
Described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as "a high lyricist who refuses to resort to mere lyricism in order to articulate her experience," Sze-Lorrain renews her faith in music and poetic language by addressing the opposing aesthetics of "ruins" and "elegance," and how the experience of both defies judgment.
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Product details
- Paperback | 72 pages
- 152 x 235 x 5.08mm | 113g
- 29 Sep 2015
- Princeton University Press
- New Jersey, United States
- English
- 0691167699
- 9780691167695
- 1,504,202
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"The luminous art of Sze-Lorrain reveals how imaginative vision requires the veil. Hers is a contemporary, polycultural poetry, a language of distance and silence, rich with suggestion. The disparate, brilliant images of her Ruined Elegance fend off narrative, 'torn by the lyric, ' whose instrument is more enduring than its players: its 'strings stayed taut. None / broke. Her fingernails did.'"--Eleanor Wilner, author of Tourist in Hell
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Table of contents
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About Fiona Sze-Lorrain
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