Collected Poems.Collected Poems Among the numerous literary works titled Collected Poems are the following:
Lynda Hull Lynda Hull (December 5, 1954 - March 29, 1994) was a United States poet. Life Hull grew up in Newark, New Jersey. At the age of sixteen she won a scholarship to Princeton University, but ran away from home. Graywolf Press 2402 University Avenue, Suite 203, Saint Paul, MN 55114 1555974570, $15.00 www.graywolfpress.org 1-651-641-0077 Graywolf Press has an established and respected reputation for publishing consistently impressive poets. Their latest title showcases the collected verse of Lynda Hull (author of 'Ghost Money', 'Star Ledger', 'The Only World', and who was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry). This definitive collection of the poetry of Lynda Hull is part of the 'Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series' and serves to introduce a whole new generation of readers to the indelible and memorable verse of Lynda Hull (1954-1994) and constitutes a fitting memorial to a truly gifted poet. 'At Thirty': Whole years I knew only nights: Automats/& damp streets, the Lower East Side steep//with narrow rooms where sleepers turn beneath/alien skies. I ran when doorways spoke//rife with smoke & zippers. But it was only the heart's/racketing flywheel stuttering stuttering or stammering, speech disorder marked by hesitation and inability to enunciate consonants without spasmodic repetition. Known technically as dysphemia, it has sometimes been attributed to an underlying personality disorder. I want, I want//until exhaustion, until I was a guest in the yoke/of my body by the last margin of land where the river//mingles with the sea & far off daylight whitens,/a rending rend v. rent or rend·ed, rend·ing, rends v.tr. 1. To tear or split apart or into pieces violently. See Synonyms at tear1. 2. & yielding I must kneel before, as//barges loose glittering mineral freight/& behind me facades gleam with pigeons//folding iridescent ir·i·des·cent adj. 1. Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors: an iridescent oil slick; iridescent plumage. 2. wings. Their voices echo/in my voice naming what is lost, what remains. |
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