num_pages: 77
description: Joanna Rawson's poems tend toward the immediate, her shattered narratives describing a landscape that is swollen and overripe, ready to burst. These are violent poems, not in the sense of voyeurism or titillation, but in terms of a society on the brink of coming the detonation of the pastoral, erotic affairs heading for annihilation, transcendence laced with despair and resignation. Winner of the 1997 Associated Writing Programs' Alandscape that is swollen and overripe, ready to burst. These are violent poems, not in the sense of voyeurism or titillation, but in terms of a society on the brink of coming the detonation of the pastoral, erotic affairs heading for annihilation, transcendence laced with despair and resignation. Winner of the 1997 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry Selected by Arthur Vogelsang
language: English
title: Quarry
titlecomplete: Quarry (Pitt Poetry Series)
ratings_count: 9
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr