Visits from the Seventh

Sarah Arvio

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Random House USA Inc
15 June 2003

Poetry; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Spiritualism

Visits from the Seventh is a highly original debut. Arvio's wry, uncanny poems take the form of conversations between a woman and a throng of invisible presences--visitors, as she calls them--who counsel, challenge, cajole and comfort her. Together they murmur about destiny, the moon, a walk on Park Avenue, sex, ambition, dreams.

""Poets,"" writes Richard Howard, ""find remarkable ways to talk to themselves, to divide and triumph, to split the speech-atom--'the journal of my other self,' Rilke called it. For women poets, (Christina Rossetti, say, or Virginia Woolf) voices from 'outside' are minatory; for men they are merely the Muse. Arvio has listened hard and heedfully to these hauntings of hers, certainly the most 'convincing' visitations since Merrill's Ouija-board transcriptions, and has arranged her overhearing in the readiest manner for her own listeners- the careful, shapely stanzas; the clear conundrum of spirit possession, which is Arvio's poetic incarnation. The whole series is an articulation of what we used to call 'the inner life'- one woman's passionate questioning of her sources, and their equally passionate (if often derisive) answers. She has forged her own dialogue of the dead, somehow managing to be funny and erotic at once, pursued and in possession. I love hearing her persuasive voices; they are the woman herself.""

By: Sarah Arvio
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 176g
ISBN: 9780375709784
ISBN 10: 0375709789
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 15 June 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah Arvio was born in 1954 and grew up near New York City. Educated at schools abroad and at Columbia University, she now works as a translator for the United Nations is New York and Switzerland. The first eleven poems of Visits from the Seventh won The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize, and were reprinted in The Best American Poetry 1998. Other poems from the sequence won Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize. In 2003, she was awarded the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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This extraordinary first book of poems takes its place in an authentic line of descent from such landmarks as Yeats's A Vision and James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover.

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Visits from the Seventh

Sarah Arvio

$34.99

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