Tryst

Name: Tryst
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ISBN: 9780932440358

ISBN-10: 0932440355

ISBN-13: 9780932440358

Edition: 2009

Authors: Angie Estes

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In her poem "Love Letters," Angie Estes writes, "I cover secrets, break me and read." And indeed, throughout Tryst, Estes' fourth and most personal collection, the poet gets straight to the heart of love, language, and memory. Details from the rural Appalachian lives of Estes' own family yield to meditations on '40s film stars, medieval saints, ancient Romans--and vice versa. We learn that gold leaf is applied with a brush fashioned out of squirrel tail, Nijinsky invented a fountain pen he called God, and female prisoners of the concentration camp at Terezin composed recipes to be tasted only in memory: all part of the human passion to create, destroy, and above all, be known. Estes' tryst…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oberlin College Press
Publication date: 4/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 86
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.02" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English

Angie Estes is the author of two previous collections of poems, The Uses of Passion and Voice-Over



You Were About


Transcript


Love Letters


Takeoff


Sommersonnenwende


Verba Volant,


You Can Tell


Via Sacra


Script


Here Lightning Has Been


Gloss


Against Bees


Wrap in Parchment and Also Pink Paper


Heart


Bourree


Alleluya


Saying


Ole


Last Words


Curio


The House in Good Taste


Salles des Departs


First Life of St. Francis


Nevers


So Near Yet So Far


Take Cover


Tryst


Verre Eglomise


It Is Virtually Without Thickness and Has Almost