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Cantos

Sarah Arvio

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English

Alfred A. Knopf
15 January 2008

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Here is Sono, a new collection of bracingly original poems, from the prizewinning author of Visits from the Seventh. Composed during a long stay in Rome, these cantos look outward in order to look inward, transforming sights and stories into expressionistic explorations of the state of the heart. Playful, probing, philosophical, colorful, often funny, they describe a struggle to come to terms with loss and grief and to find a basis for renewal; they ask whether and how life is worth living, taking pleasure in the questions themselves. ""It wasn't the life I would have wanted, / had I known what sort of life I did want,"" starts the poem entitled ""Chagrin."" ""I do believe I was never loved,"" announces ""Obelisk."" Riffing expertly, Sarah Arvio brings wit and exquisite formal discipline to her gorgeous meditations on the life lived. These are high-burning songs of the self- colloquial, sexy, unflinching, and unforgettable.

A colossal mess I made of my life, in the flesh and also in the round; this was the essence of colosseum,

the museum of my colossal shame, where I mused on the blood sport of it all. . .

(from ""Colosseum"")

By: Sarah Arvio
Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 125g
ISBN: 9780375711367
ISBN 10: 0375711368
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 15 January 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

SARAH ARVIO is the author of two previous books of poetry, Visits from the Seventh and Sono. She has won a number of awards and honors, including the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Guggenheim and Bogliasco Fellowships. For many years a translator for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland, she has also taught poetry at Princeton. www.saraharvio.com/arvio/home.html

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