Open Interval

by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Overview

Drawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in Open Interval locate the self in the interval between body and name.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822960362
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	04/10/2009
Series:	Pitt Poetry Series
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is assistant professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of the poetry collection Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and coauthor, with Elizabeth Alexander, of the chapbook Poems in Conversation and a Conversation. Her poems have appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Rattapallax, Shenandoah, and in several anthologies including Bum Rush the Page and Role Call.

Editorial Reviews

What joy to enter the universe Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon wills into being. In  ]Open Interval[ Jimi Hendrix, Robert Hass, Rilke, Bearden, John Goodricke, Blues, Desire, Longing, Supernovas, and more are all held together with lyrical daring and fierce imagination. Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon invents a new world to reveal to us the secret workings of the old.”
—Cornelius Eady


“At once luminous and fiercely heartrending.”
—American Poet


“Exceptional . . . represents a quantum leap in imagination, as she has discovered that the more distance one attains from the hardened self, the clearer it becomes to the observer. Her attention has swung from the relaxed narrative line to formal perfection.”
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Van Clief-Stefanon continues to draw from science, history, the Bible, and autobiography to make elliptical, lovely poems.”
—West Branch

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