Couple

Name: Couple
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ISBN: 9780819565785

ISBN-10: 0819565784

ISBN-13: 9780819565785

Edition: 2002

Authors: Mark Rudman

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In his Rider trilogy, Mark Rudman perfected a mixed genre form -- combining dialogue, lyric and prose. While employing some of the same techniques that have become "signature Rudman" -- the compact, colloquial line, dazzling shifts from popular culture to classical history -- The Couple also breaks new ground. This new book is a collection of discrete poems organized around four poem sequences, "Long-Stemmed Rose," "The Shallowness of the Lake," "Perseus Surprised, Andromeda Unbound," and "Fragile Craft." As the title suggests, the theme of relationships, both dark and erotically-charged, emerges here as Rudman's focus. The couples in the book include parents, lovers, a young boy and girl…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 12/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

MARK RUDMAN received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Rider (1994). He teaches poetry at New York University.



Provo


Long-Stemmed Rose


The Guitar Lesson


The Shallowness of the Lake


Perseus Surprised, Andromeda Unbound


Deceptive Practicality


The Change Seminars


Positioning in Time


Fragile Craft


Bicoastal: Bobby Darin at the Copa


"The Secretary of Liquor"


Money


Hidden Clauses in the Lottery You Can Enter For Free


Return of the Soldier


The Couple


Elsewhere


Volterra


Notes