The Beds
Published on 1. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
56 pages
978-1-932870-53-4 (ISBN)
Description
In The Beds, award-winning poet Martha Rhodes skillfully navigates a tonally complex terrain. Rhodes' fourth collection mixes form and free-verse, specifically using the rondelet's tight, obsessive repetition as a means to harness and modulate frenetic content.
Reviews / Votes
"I can assure you that Martha Rhodes' unflinching manner of address in The Beds will make you flinch...what's so brilliant about this book is how steadfastly it refuses closure. These poems, grim and wise, never arrive in the guise of the Good Girl. And for that brand of honesty, I am most grateful." -Cate Marvin "Martha Rhodes, in her searing new collection with a steady gaze and moments of humor, journeys through the dark caverns of heartbreak. Yet even so, true hope can arrive in a flash: 'It is golden here for this demi-second. Bright. / You won't be frightened away.'" -Dana LevinMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
68 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932870-53-4 (9781932870534)
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MARTHA RHODES is the author of At the Gate, Perfect Disappearance (Green Rose Prize), and Mother Quiet. Her poems have been published in such journals as Agni, Columbia, Fence, New England Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly and anthologized in Agni 30 Years, Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, Poem in Your Pocket (a publication of the Academy of American Poets), and It's Not You, It's Me. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Martha Rhodes is the director of Four Way Books in New York City.