
Deviants
Peter Kline(Author)
Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-62288-029-4 (ISBN)
Description
Deviants is about transgression and transcendence, about passing as a man or a woman, as gay or straight, about passing through unseen, passing by without stopping to help, passing over the threshold, passing from innocence, passing from life.
The deviants in this book are the many masks we wear, the loners and flirts, the worriers and snarlers; they can be found in the deviant use of ancient forms. These poems are beautiful and meaningfully interactive, clear and accessible on their own, but become even richer in meaning as they are understood in the context of poetic tradition. Kline's words stick both in the mind and the craw.
They engage powerfully with tradition while deviating into contemporary concerns in a contemporary idiom, while challenging the easy relationship between speaker and reader through the use of shifting personae whose designs on the reader are slippery and sometimes adversarial, in the tradition of Browning, Pound, and Plath.
The deviants in this book are the many masks we wear, the loners and flirts, the worriers and snarlers; they can be found in the deviant use of ancient forms. These poems are beautiful and meaningfully interactive, clear and accessible on their own, but become even richer in meaning as they are understood in the context of poetic tradition. Kline's words stick both in the mind and the craw.
They engage powerfully with tradition while deviating into contemporary concerns in a contemporary idiom, while challenging the easy relationship between speaker and reader through the use of shifting personae whose designs on the reader are slippery and sometimes adversarial, in the tradition of Browning, Pound, and Plath.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
College Station
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
100 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62288-029-4 (9781622880294)
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Peter Kline graduated with a BA in English from Northwestern University, USA, an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia, USA, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry Writing at Stanford University, USA. He is currently an instructor of Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco, USA and at Stanford Continuing Studies in Palo Alto, CA, USA. In 2014, he will hold the Army Clampitt Residency Award.