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Permission
Poetry. "Katie Peterson's PERMISSION releases us to explore the unnatural nature of the world. She investigates, with wonder, the 'puckers in smooth song.' These poems offer a doubling, proliferating experience: a folding out and a folding in. Like the children's toy called the Jacob's Ladder, Peterson's poems unfurl endlessly without ever denying their ultimate human finitude. But what is permission if it is not defined by the transcending agency of its own incarnation, its eros, its awe? And so quiet miracles ensue. The never-ending ladder beckons. We climb its light: 'not a dazzle but a conduit.'" Elizabeth Robinson"
Book Details
- Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2013
- Pages: 70
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.60in - 5.90in - 0.30in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9781936970216
- Categories: • American - General• Women Authors
About the Author
Peterson, Katie: - Katie Peterson is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Accounts (2013), winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize. She lives in Berkeley, CA.
Praise for this book
"She is a poet of necessary disequilibrium. With stubborn persistence, each poem struggles for balance, usually resulting in a draw between the limitations of personal comprehension and a vast naturalness of automatic being in the surround, often depicted in minutiae. A yearning for expansion of spirit ends up (almost) settling for the yearning itself. Remarkably, her poem-endings often echo this compromise yet strike the reader as quite various in what they notice or their manner of insistence."--Ron Slate "On the Seawall" (1/17/2014 12:00:00 AM)