کارپاتیا (ادبیات شاعران آمریکایی)

Her traveling poetrics are striking in the way that she defies the borders of "narrative" and "lyric"; she combines the two seamlessly, an enviable gift. —Sacramento News & Review These poems move through love and death, sadness and euphoria, and across European and American landscapes, encountering lovers, strangers, and beloved ghosts. They arrive, finally, in a place of beauty, mystery, grief, and joy. Poems from this collection were selected by Marie Howe as winner of the 2006 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award. Cecilia Woloch was named 2004 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry for her last collection, Late (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2003). She is founding director of the Summer Poetry Workshop in Idyllwild, California. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Los Angeles, California, and travels extensively in Europe. From Devils Lake Journal: “Celia Woloch's collection Carpathia is about distance, both physical and emotional. Her poems occupy a lush landscape where the natural world succombs to loss, where “fat bees [fall] into the wine" and the ghost swans have “wings of death." The highlights of this collection are her numerous postcard poems which feel balanced in their attempts to be both strange and authentic without becoming burdened with ironic oddity that I've seen so much in recent poetry. Her postcards move, making leaps with each new sentence, and their prose-poem form opens these poems up to be more peculiar in a way that's all-together successful." From The Cosmopolitan Review: “One of the joys of Cecilia Woloch's poetry is that it so beautifully and skilfully intermingles humour with emotional intensity, sensuality, and existential profoundness...Underneath it all, there lies a clear conviction that each of us could have been somebody else, could have been born and lived somewhere else, and yet “We all dwell in one country, O stranger, the world." Her traveling putrics are striking in the way that she defies the borders of "narrative" and "lyric"; she combines the two seamlessly, an enviable gift. --Sacramento News & Review These pums move through love and death, sadness and euphoria, and across European and American landscapes, encountering lovers, strangers, and beloved ghosts. They arrive, finally, in a place of beauty, mystery, grief, and joy. Pums from this collection were selected by Marie Howe as winner of the 2006 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award. Cecilia Woloch was named 2004 Georgia Author of the Year in Putry for her last collection, Late (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2003). She is founding director of the Summer Putry Workshop in Idyllwild, California. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Los Angeles, California, and travels extensively in Europe. From Devils Lake Journal: "Celia Woloch's collection Carpathia is about distance, both physical and emotional. Her pums occupy a lush landscape where the natural world succombs to loss, where "fat bees [fall] into the wine" and the ghost swans have "wings of death." The highlights of this collection are her numerous postcard pums which feel balanced in their attempts to be both strange and authentic without becoming burdened with ironic oddity that I've seen so much in recent putry. Her postcards move, making leaps with each new sentence, and their prose-pum form opens these pums up to be more peculiar in a way that's all-together successful." From The Cosmopolitan Review: "One of the joys of Cecilia Woloch's putry is that it so beautifully and skilfully intermingles humour with emotional intensity, sensuality, and existential profoundness ... Underneath it all, there lies a clear conviction that each of us could have been somebody else, could have been born and lived somewhere else, and yet "We all dwell in one country, O stranger, the world." Part 1. Postcard With Sarah, To Sarah, From A Bridge In Paris- Which? -- Anniversary -- Shine -- Postcard To Ilya Kaminsky From A Dream At The Edge Of The Sea -- What Is This? -- Greed -- Postcard To Lisa, With Lisa, From Metro Line 1 -- Mistake -- Last Fever -- Brasov, 1989 -- Postcard Beginning With A Quote From Mark C., Avenue De L'opera -- House -- Lethe -- Postcard From Akhmatova's Bed -- Lucifer, Full Of Light -- Salt -- Postcard To X From Warsaw, Ulica Piekna (pretty Street) -- Watching Him Die -- Ground -- Ghost Hunger -- Postcard To Myself From The Lower Carpathians, Spring -- Part 2. Why I Believed, As A Child, That People Had Sex In Bathrooms -- Postcard To Ben, With Ben, From Paris, Kentucky -- Fireflies -- Faith -- Who Reminds Me Of You, When You Could Still Walk- Just Barely -- Seven Years After Your Death -- Girl In A Truck, Kentucky Highway 245 -- My Old True Love -- Known -- Postcard With Andrew, To Andrew, From I-75 On New Year's Day -- Wish -- Blazon -- Be Always Late -- Kind Weather -- Postcard To Carine From The Past -- Pantoum: Le Jardin D'isabelle -- Postcard To Some Beloved, From The Rue Des Guillemites -- Whose Hunger -- Postcard To Sarah, In The Carpathians, From Paris, The Rue Vieille Du Temple -- Au Revoir, Paris -- Part 3. Letter From Irena, In Warsaw, In Winter, Translated Loosely From The French -- If What We Love Turns To Glass, How Do We Keep It Safe -- I'd Like A Love Letter And Too Much Light In My Eyes -- Really, I Couldn't Say When My Kisses Got Closer To Your Mouth -- Because New Love Smells Like Grass -- You Simply Close Your Hand Around Whatever Shines -- The Silk Of Longing Is Never Worth What We Are Paid -- Then -- Carpathia. By Cecilia Woloch. Eulogies to a dying father, lush lyrics to former lovers in Europe: joy, sorrow, sex, death.