University of Iowa Press, 1991 Paper: 978-0-87745-319-2 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-668-0 Library of Congress Classification PS3558.U3974S7 1991 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this dark but finally redemptive group of poems, the tawdry and the exquisite must coexist: Star Ledger may evoke images of the celestial, but it is also the name of the Newark morning newspaper. Such ironies continually inform Hull’s poetry, which is tough and uncompromising but richly veined with a musicality and a lyrical texture that recall earlier epics of the American city such as The Bridge and Paterson.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lynda Hull was born in Newark in 1954. Her first volume of poetry, Ghost Money, won the Juniper Prize in 1986. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Gettysburg Review. She died in 1994.
REVIEWS
“Hull’s second book is full of poems in which history, narrative complexity, symbolism, and the lyricism of a passionate voice all work together. . . . [She] knows something about life and death and in her poetry she tells us what they are like. She does not hide her knowledge or lack of it in ruptured syntax or aimless discursiveness. She seeks and finds the connections and makes them with the experience of one who has returned from the underworld with a fire inside.”—Hudson Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
I
Star Ledger
Shore Leave
Fairy Tales: Steel Engravings
Love Song during Riot with Many Voices
Midnight Reports
The Real Movie, with Stars
So Many Swimmers
Adagio
II
Edgemont: The Swans
Visiting Hour
The Crossing, 1927
Aubade
Studies from Life
Utopia Parkway
Gateway to Manhattan
Magical Thinking
Utsuroi
III
Cubism, Barcelona
Counting in Chinese
Carnival
Frugal Repasts
Abacus
Lost Fugue for Chet
Vita Brevis
Hospice
Black Mare
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