Disfortune - Poems
Author(s): Joe Wenderoth
Wenderoth's poetry features Terse and haunting lyrics that mark a new intimacy with the world
Disfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting lyrics expose the irreducible contradictions of living, wherein "the talking-singing, the whole talking-/singing ball of yarn, begins to unravel." Deceptively casual in tone, these poems offer startling confrontations with "the unoriginal/oblivion," with "the contrived delicacy/of what is emptied and kept." Joe Wenderoth sees "fortune" as the mute history of events proceeding toward the ultimate security; his poems arise from "disfortune," from the need "Just to sing the song that's kept you/quiet/all this time." This book is a rare occurrence, marking not only a new intimacy with the world, but also a remembering of the determined motion of intimacy itself.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Wesleyan University Press
- : Wesleyan University Press
- : 0.136078
- : 01 August 1995
- : .35 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 8.48 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Joe Wenderoth
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 811/.54
- : 84