Title: WORLD: POEMS 1991-2001
Description: "World", Maxine Chernoff's first full-length collection of poetry in ten years, explores the borders of personal and group experience, public and private language. From brief riffs on jazz to prose poem dialogues to long sequences about Emerson's essays and the problematic relationship of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe ("World"), she examines the range of poetic possibility in "linguistic cuts and connections" that surprise the mind and ear. "World" is written in a mixture of styles and tones from the sonic, terse lyrics of the sequence "World" and the ten poems based on Emerson{u2019}s essays to the vernacular of the prose poems, which are lively, dialogue-based explorations of relationships.