Bøger af Diane Seuss

The follow-up to Diane Suess's Pulitzer Prize winning frank: sonnets, Modern Poetry writes an experimental-scholarly life in poems.

Diane Seuss's signature voice-audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude-has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and terms of musical and poetic craft-ballad, fugue, aria, refrain, coda-and contend with the works of writers overrepresented in textbooks and anthologies and those too often underrepresented. Seuss provides a moving account of her picaresque years and their uncertainties, and in the process, she enters the realm between Modernism and Romanticism, between romance and objectivity, with Keats as ghost, lover, and interlocutor.In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? "It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem," Seuss writes. "You can't hide / from what you made / inside what you made." What she finds there, finally, is a surprising but unmistakable love.

Von der Kindheit in der Arbeiterklasse im ländlichen Michigan bis hin zu den gefährlichen Verlockungen von New York City: Virtuos bewegt sich Diane Seuss durch Gedanken und Zeit, Poesie und Punk, AIDS und Sucht, Glaube und Mutterschaft. Neben der eigenen Biographie spielen ihr Sohn, dessen Drogensucht und Selbstmordversuch, der frühe Tod des Vaters und eine distanzierte Mutter sowie ein an Aids verstorbener naher Freund eine Rolle. Trotz drastischer biographischer Erfahrungen verliert Seuss nicht den Humor. In ihrem mal scho­nungslos ehrlichen, mal politisch-pointierten oder lyrisch-verspielten Witz steckt aber auch eine Verletzung, ein Schmerz. In diesen Momenten wird der Humor zum Werkzeug, zum Mittel, um ein an Enttäuschungen reiches Leben zu bewältigen.Weitere Auszeichnungen:. 2021 John Updike Preis. 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award für Lyrik. 2021 PEN¿/¿Voelcker Award für Poetry Collection. 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Preis für Lyrik . 2022 Pulitzer-Preis für DichtungFinalistin für the den:. 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeDiane Seuss's brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryStill life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned DreamsicleStill life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinderStill life with whiskey wooden leg two potpies and a dead parakeetStill life with pork rinds pickled peppers and the Book of RevelationStill life with feeding tube oxygen half-eaten raspberry ZingerStill life with convenience store pecking order shotgun blast to the face-from "American Still Lives"Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl takes its title from Rembrandt's painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer's own troubled gaze. In Diane Seuss's new collection, the notion of the still life is shattered and Rembrandt's painting is presented across the book in pieces-details that hide more than they reveal until they're assembled into a whole. With invention and irreverence, these poems escape gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Instead, Seuss invites in the alienated, the washed-up, the ugly, and the freakish-the overlooked many of us who might more often stand in a Walmart parking lot than before the canvases of Pollock, O'Keeffe, and Rothko. Rendered with precision and profound empathy, this extraordinary gallery of lives in shards shows us that "our memories are local, acute, and unrelenting."

Diane Seuss's poems grow out of the fertile soil of southwest Michigan, bursting any and all stereotypes of the Midwest and turning loose characters worthy of Faulkner in their obsession, their suffering, their dramas of love and sex and death.