Amy Newman
Autore di Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974
Sull'Autore
Amy Newman is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University and author of Order, or Disorder (1995), which received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize, and Camera Lyrica (1999), which received the Beatrice Hawley Award. Her poems have appeared in The Colorado mostra altro Review, Denver Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and Seneca Review mostra meno
Opere di Amy Newman
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Istruzione
- Ohio State University
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 18
- Utenti
- 132
- Popolarità
- #153,555
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 22
Newman captures small moments in the lives of mid-century American poets like Lowell, Plath, Sexton, Berryman, and Bishop. Each poem places the poets in a multidimensional historical space, contrasting their actions with concurrent actions of other poets. Throughout there's a sort of mounting sense of dread because we know how it ends for so many of these poets: especially Plath, Sexton, and Berryman. We know the tragedy and desperation of their battle against mental illness. But even though that sense of dread exists, we also get to see these poets in quiet moments; Newman makes sure they live louder and stronger than they die.
The poems themselves are beautiful, sad, funny, tense, and they act almost as a Greek chorus, invoking and reminding American poetry of its history and the very real people that made up the mid-century canon… (altro)