Bibliograph

Incarnadine, poems, Mary Szybist

Type

Label

Incarnadine, poems, Mary Szybist

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-68)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Incarnadine

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

794367478

Responsibility statement

Mary Szybist

Sub title

poems

Summary

Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new color. One poem is presented as a diagrammed sentence. Another is an abecedarium made of lines of dialogue spoken by girls overheard while assembling a puzzle. Several poems arrive as a series of Annunciations, while others purport to give an update on Mary, who must finish the dishes before she will open herself to God. One poem appears on the page as spokes radiating from a wheel, or as a sunburst, or as the cycle around which all times and all tenses are alive in this moment. Szybist's formal innovations are matched by her musical lines, by her poetry's insistence on singing as a lure toward the unknowable. Inside these poems is a deep yearning -- for love, motherhood, the will to see things as they are and to speak

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