University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989 eISBN: 978-0-8229-9148-9 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5417-0 Library of Congress Classification PS3563.U837A87 1989 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Applause is a collection of poems about joy and dread--mirroring the extremes of the contemporary American experience. Joy is defined in motherhood, self-conscious love, friendship--while dread is described through an accelerating sense of doom, and the failure of nearly all prescriptive political solutions to the world’s problems. The overall mood is one of bravado in the face of ruin--the metaphor of applause, standing there clapping, well-intentioned in a crumbling world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Carol Muske has taught in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University, the Iowa Writers' Workshops, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Virginia. Her first book of poems, Camouflage, was published in 1975 by the University of Pittsburgh Press, followed by Skylight (1981) and Wyndmere (1985). Among her awards are the 1979 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America, and a 1981 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship.
REVIEWS
"The linkage of blood and blood; the hummingbird, symbol of all that is luminous, swift and ephemeral; the lights sure touch-these are characteristic of Carol Muske's art." --New York Times Book Review
"A carefully cultivated gift for phrase-making that converts accurate observation into decisive declaration." --Poetry Magazine
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Dream
Summer Cold
The Wish Foundation
Skid
Box
The Eulogy
Ideal
Ex-Embassy
Intensive Care
Pediatrics
Vermont Farmhouse, 3 A.M.
After Care
Nineteen Seventy
Monk's House, Rodmell
Pick-Up Sticks
Immunity
Meal Ticket
August 1974: A Tapestry
Asbestos
Applause
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