Publication

1996 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Language

English

Word Count

15,000 words, Guess

Page Count

60 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1571261
  • Goodreads2276364

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3552.R666 P37 1996

Description

In Passages, Catharine Savage Brosman presents journeys between the world and spirit, journeys that share an axis of yearning for a realm as pure as desire. Brosman refracts through metrical virtuosity, historical imagination, and a vision like cleansing light a world alive with coruscating color and sensual textures. Whether rendering a speaker's spiritual communion with Mozart, the febrile longings of a woman caught in adultery in French Algeria, or a love letter by Madame d'Epinay (deftly couched in the metrics and tropes of eighteenth-century France), Brosman moves effortlessly from the broodingly intimate perspectives of other eyes, other souls, to the most abstract of aesthetic meditations. These are poems of wit and passion, poems that beg to be read and reread, and this remarkable collection reminds us again and again of the passages that open into the lives of our imagination.

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