Rave: Poems, 1975-1999

Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9"

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Collecting Broumas's original poems from five previous books and two books of collaborations, Rave offers a definitive assessment of a unique voice in American poetry. Broumas is, above all else, a poet of Eros in every aspect. Born in Syros, Greece, she follows in the ancient Sapphic tradition. Her long practice as teacher, musician, and masseuse has led her to a poetry of the body -- of ecstasy, celebration, and healing -- a poetry to be heard as well as read.

"Broumas is best known for her poetry, which first appeared in 1977 as Beginning with O. She was an instant hit ... she steeps her very modern mind in tradition; she reaches back to Sappho. While we had sexy poets in the '70s, and we had feminist-political and Sapphist poets as well, the majority fell into tribes: formal or severely antiformal; long-lined in the Whitman-Rukeyser tradition, or short-lined and unpunctuated; some spiritually Eastern-influenced, some decidedly East Coast, postmodern, post-Stonewall. Broumas reached into all these pockets but stayed in none. She handed out something completely original at the time -- a feminist, lesbian lyric .... What makes Broumas successful where others fail is that she always makes her language compelling enough to move the reader forward." -- The Village Voice

In her earliest work, Broumas dealt with myth and fairy tales, reexamining personal, sexual, and political assumptions in poems of frank, incendiary, lyrical intensity. Her later poems reveal the influence of Zen parables and luminous fragments, resulting in poems of anger and compassion as AIDS decimated the gay community.

Product Info

ISBN: 1556591276

ISBN-13: 9781556591273

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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