| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (89 pages) |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 31, 2014). |
| Summary |
This new edition of the first full-length collection of poems by award-winning writer Rose Solari provides an important window into the origins and early influences of this now-established poet and novelist. Though most of these poems are set in Washington, DC, and its less affluent suburbs, their lyrical, often elegiac depictions of family and neighborhood life, first love and first losses, will be sure to touch anyone who, like Solari, grew up in a place more interesting than safe. In selecting Difficult Weather for the Columbia Book Award, Carolyn Forché, now Director of the Lannan Center for Poetry, said of Solari, Her language is by turns raw and luminous, her perceptions uncommonly acute, and her vision at once incisive and compassionate. Michael Collier, Director of the Bread Loaf Writer's Center, wrote that she is a poet of passion and precision… Difficult Weather will delight and surprise us all. This edition features a new introduction by poet and translator Katherine E. Young, who places Solari's early work in a national context, and traces some of the poet's most powerful influences, such as the work of Anne Sexton. Its publication, timed to coincide with that of Solari's third poetry collection, The Last Girl, insures that all of Solari's published poetry collections are now in print, for her fans to savor and for new readers to discover. |
| Contents |
Cover; Also by the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contents ; Introduction to the Second Edition; Invocation; 1Around the Corner; Last Night I Tried to Walk You Out; Vanishing Act; December 25, 1991; The Function of Memory; Juggling; First Communion; Chicken Fights; Currents; Truro; 2BetweenOurFingers; The Weather; For Robert, Falling and Running; Another Start; Five Seasons in Pieces; Epiphany at the Olney Ale House; From the Roof of the Sheraton Washington; Completion; On the Beach; 3The World Outside; Letter From Sligo Creek; On Photography; Distances. |
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The Beginning, 1939An Arrangement in Place and Distance; John and His Sister; Love Poem; Difficult Weather; Secrets; Celebration; Note on ""A Story""; A Story. |
| Subject |
Life -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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FICTION -- General.
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Life. (OCoLC)fst01198505
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Solari, Rose. Difficult weather : poems. Second edition. Bethesda, Maryland : Alan Squire Publishing, ©2014 xx, 67 pages 9780984832972 |
| ISBN |
9780991408771 (electronic bk.) |
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0991408772 (electronic bk.) |
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9780991408764 (electronic bk.) |
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0991408764 (electronic bk.) |
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9780984832972 (electronic bk.) |
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0984832971 (electronic bk.) |
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