num_pages: 80
description: Muse, the first full-length collection from poet Susan Aizenberg, brings together poems of personal history, elegy, and the complex lives of artists, writers, and “ordinary” people, in an exploration of the relationship between art and life, esthetics and ethics. She is sharp-eyed in purpose, trying to understand “what love is” in a continual shifting between loss and knowledge. While “there is no other world than this one” for Aizenberg, nevertheless she finds a world of affirmation. Aizenberg sings elegant blues, keeps a perfect balance between elaboration and restraint with formal skill that is both impressive and consoling, reminding us that poetry is a form of intelligence in which music creates a world full of mystery and depth.
language: English
title: Muse
titlecomplete: Muse (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 16
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Nebraska Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Southern Illinois University Press