
Rinse
Elaine Terranova(Author)
Grid Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 11. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-946830-17-3 (ISBN)
Description
The title of Elaine Terranova's eighth collection implies a cleanse, a refresh, not unlike the kind a body undertakes in sleep. Rinse charts inner landscapes in poems that read like memories surfaced in reflection and refracted through the lens of dreams. As the poet enters sleep's " dark passage" a synesthetic language emerges, in which sounds hold colors, and colors reflect sensations. " Clashing sounds splinter the air, a red bird's worth of agitation," she writes, " that or the sharpening thorns of roses." The result is disquieting, at times dystopic, but ultimately transformative. The poems in Rinse are like prisms that we, her readers, pass through. On the other side, we are not the same.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-946830-17-3 (9781946830173)
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Elaine Terranova is the author of eight collections, including most recently Rinse (Grid Books, 2023), and two chapbooks. Her work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Her translation of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Greek Drama Series. She has received the Walt Whitman Award, an NEA, a Pew Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and in 2024, the Maurice English Poetry Award.