
The Oval Hour
Poems by Kathleen Peirce
Kathleen Peirce(Author)
University of Iowa Press
Published on 1. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-87745-664-3 (ISBN)
Description
In The Oval Hour Kathleen Peirce addresses the vulnerability of language -- which is to say the vulnerability of our reality -- when we are in extreme states of desire and loss, especially erotic desire and erotic loss. Central to the book is its series of "Confessions, " twenty formally similar poems that contend with the Confessions of Saint Augustine. "Passing through innocence, I came either to experience / or guilt, or they came to me, displacing innocence": these luminous poems explore the generation and overlapping of carnal and metaphysical identities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87745-664-3 (9780877456643)
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