Muse

Muse

by Susan Aizenberg
Muse

Muse

by Susan Aizenberg

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Overview

Muse, the first full-length collection from poet Susan Aizenberg, brings together poems of personal history, elegy, and the complex lives of artists, writers, and “ordinary” people, in an exploration of the relationship between art and life, esthetics and ethics. She is sharp-eyed in purpose, trying to understand “what love is” in a continual shifting between loss and knowledge. While “there is no other world than this one” for Aizenberg, nevertheless she finds a world of affirmation. Aizenberg sings elegant blues, keeps a perfect balance between elaboration and restraint with formal skill that is both impressive and consoling, reminding us that poetry is a form of intelligence in which music creates a world full of mystery and depth.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780809324439
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 04/12/2002
Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Edition description: 1st Edition
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Susan Aizenberg is the coeditor (with Erin Belieu) of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, a contributing editor to the Nebraska Review, and author of a chapbook-length collection of poems, Peru, which appears in Take Three: 2: AGNI New Poets Series. Her poems have appeared and are forthcoming in the Journal, AGNI, Chelsea, Prairie Schooner, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsxi
1
White Cat and Notebook: A Still Life3
2
Contrast, Composition9
Nights Mutable as Water Revise Themselves into the Shape of Our Extravagant Past11
What It Is12
Cortland, 197014
Twenty-Five Years from Anywhere Like That15
Kiss16
For the Dark Girl18
Triptych: For Michael19
In the Frame22
Far Rockaway23
Debut: Late Lines for a Thirtieth Birthday25
The Uses of Metaphor27
Grand Street28
Against Romance30
Muse31
3
Three Poems for Judi37
The Life You Really Have39
Memory from Childhood41
Luminous Child42
Flying West43
Art45
Ode for My Son at Seventeen47
Half-Light: No Feeling48
Sometimes When You're Asleep49
Heat51
Georgic on Waking53
L'Heure Bleue54
Grace56
Florigraphy58
Prayer60
Notes63
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