Taking on the Local Color

Author/creator Genser, Cynthia, 1950- Author
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMiddletown : Wesleyan University Press Lebanon : University Press of New England [Distributor]
Description80 p. 08.500 x 05.500 in.
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SeriesWesleyan Poetry Program Ser. Vol. 85
Summary Annotation Cynthia Genser's landscapes, like those of D.H. Lawrence, are analogues of human emotions; her men and women exist in their effects-prototypes one minute, passionate and distinctly visible individuals the next. Person and place invite the reader into an adventure that begins and ends everywhere.<br /><br />The language employed throughout is voluptuous, sensuous, yet precise. The appeal is to all the senses as well as to reason and intelligence: the poems, seamed with a difficult, sweaty beauty, stimulate every pleasure center. But pure language play also leads to hard, intelligent sense.<br /><br />Of her own work, Cynthia Genser has said, "Although I belong to no special school or group, I align my poetry with the work of others aiming their metaphors at the banality and reductionism of our world-at the terror or planned obsolescence, Vogue Magazine, the threat of nuclear warfare. I cannot agree more with the Marxist Henri Lefebvre that poetry is the enemy and eventual victor in the war against 'terrorism' and the terrorist society we now live in."
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ISBN9780819510853
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