If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000

by Ann Lauterbach

Book Overview

Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most inventive and admired poets. Since the mid-1970s, she has explored the ways in which language simultaneously captures and forfeits our experience. By turns... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140589309
• ISBN13: 9780140589306
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

In Time

Ann Lauterbach's work is a exquisite rarity in the subgroup of the subgroup of American poetry and poetics. That is, she's often (mis)aligned with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E folk, only because they perhaps come closest to comprehending and digesting her work. Great poetry takes hard work -- most of all, on the reader's part. All blurbs are mischief. Suffice it to say, if anyone's on the edge of making it new, it's Ann. And though "experimentalism" is often equated with nonsense/half-sense/absurd-sense, her work is none of them. At the heart of the hard is the divine. In time, perhaps a long time, it may be revealed that Ann is the heart.