Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems

by Lisa Russ Spaar

Book Overview

This career-spanning volume portrays in stunning fashion Lisa Russ Spaar's exquisite obsessions: spiritual hunger, lingual pleasures, bodily decay. The "ringleader of a stunning lexicon" (Shenandoah), Spaar's poems are both colloquial and sumptuous, hyper-attuned to contemporary idiom while rooted in language's primordial, earthy roots. Whether writing of the erotic or the divine, of anorexia or insomnia, of fairy tale or literary history, Spaar's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089255536X
• ISBN13: 9780892555369
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"