The Paper Wasp
Brand: Triquarterly Books
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry


Used Book in Good Condition

Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.53 x 8.4 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0810150836
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810150832
Publisher: Triquarterly
Print length: 81 pages
Publication date: February 24, 1999
subtitle: Hardcover – February 24, 1999
author: Visit Amazon's Teresa Cader Page search results Teresa Cader
review: Editorial Reviews From Library Journal The best of Cader's second collection, (after Guests, Ohio State Univ., 1991) is "a poetics of birth," a journeylike sequence of 14 poems celebrating the conception, prenatal "engendering," and "birthing" of a child. "I think about the body's secrets," Cader admits, speculating on the "sacred" mystery of "amniotic sleep," with child or poem about to be drawn from "the edge of being" into "the way of flesh." Wonder-laden poems, seen as if under a microscope, seek forms of what they describe: "A variegated fern blossoms there/ in the opulent milk of mucus and sperm." The title poem pays tribute to Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese ancient who invented paper by watching "the wasp/ spin its white nest." Twelve final poems commemorate the suffering and victimization of Eugenia Ginzburg, a Russian historian and poet. A little less erudition would allow this human poetry to reach mainstream readers.?Frank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, PA Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review At The Edge Of Being Atom By The River Can't Correspondence The Devil Empress Shotoku Invents Printing In 770 Empty Is My Fullness An Excuse Fists Internal Exile: 1. How It Happened Internal Exile: 10. Anton Internal Exile: 11. Bach Internal Exile: 12. Gladioli, 1954 Internal Exile: 2. The Summons Internal Exile: 3. Momentum Internal Exile: 4. Lyadsky Park Internal Exile: 5. Pushkin Internal Exile: 6. Elgen Forest Internal Exile: 7. Intellectuals Internal Exile: 8. Siege Of Leningrad Internal Exile: 9. Blizzard Invisible Order A Legend Of Paper Money Massage Oeuvre, Spirulina, Mugwomp The Paper Artist At Work A Poetics Of Birth A Primer Scapula Six Entries On The Invention Of Paper Spirit Papers The Sumerian Symbol For Bird The Task Three Parables: 1. The Paralytic Three Parables: 2. Unclean Three Parables: 3. The Bent-over Woman Wind, Horse, Snow -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®