Ann Lauterbach's fifth collection takes its title from Emerson's great essay, Experience- ""Where do we find ourselves?"" he asks. Lauterbach's stair sits precariously between a quest for spiritual vitality and a sense of the overwhelming materiality of our world. Identifying with the clown, the nomad and the thief figures whose ghostly marginality haunt this book, Lauterbach brings us, with a dazzling range of formal and imagistic resources, to a new understanding of how language inscribes the relationship between self-knowledge and cultural meaning.
By:
Ann Lauterbach
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 233mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 8mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9780140587937
ISBN 10: 0140587934
Series: Penguin Poets
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 01 October 1997
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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A / AS level
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
On A StairA Valentine for Tomorrow Nocturnal Reel Bramble Portrait Figure without Ground Poem of the Landscape On (Tower) Night Barrier Poise on Row Sequence with Dream Objects in Real Time Blake's Lagoon Free Fall On (Word) On (Open) A Clown, Some Colors, A Doll, Her Stories, A Song, A Moonlit Cove On (Thing) On (Dream) The Return of Weather Staircase A History Lesson Daylight Savings Time Delayed Elegy And The Question Of Poem with Last Line from Epictetus Here/This/There/That Auction On N/est Invocation
Ann Lauterbach is Ruth and David Schwab III Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College. Her work has received fellowship support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation. She has published six collections of poetry, including If in Time- Selected Poems 1975-2000.
- Short-listed for Boston Book Review (Poetry) 1998
