{"product_id":"fanatic-heart-poems-paperback","title":"Fanatic Heart: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Pope\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eFanatic Heart, \u003c\/i\u003e Deboarah Pope's remarkably accomplished first collection of verse, are distinguished by their sensuous language, assured voice, and surpassing intelligence. \"These are poems with a definite edge to them,\" notes the poet Betty Adcock. Memory and identity, family and place, lives that encompass both \"the wingsweep of joy\" and \"the fierce hug of grief\"--these are Pope's concerns. Hers are poems of pain and loss, but they are also, and more tellingly, poems of wonder, of love and passion in their various guises, of the ambiguity in every human relation--an ambiguity skillfully evoked in \"Signs\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these woods we have chosen\u003cbr\u003e with scarcely more knowing \u003cbr\u003e than we chose each other, \u003cbr\u003e prospects will always promise\u003cbr\u003e more than they come to.\u003cbr\u003e The solidity of this house is surface, \u003cbr\u003e the permanence of anything is myth.\u003cbr\u003e We take our visions edged, \u003cbr\u003e at home in a light that curves.\u003cbr\u003e Still, as they gypsies say, \u003cbr\u003e good road. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems are set in a carefully articulated natural world, those sensual beauty Pope captures in such lines as these from \"Peaches\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey will be all over the ground, \u003cbr\u003e gold-dusted, giving softly\u003cbr\u003e under the balls of our feet, \u003cbr\u003e size of apricots, no good for eating, \u003cbr\u003e but the smell will be \u003cbr\u003e delicious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeborah Pope's poems give voice to a life deeply felt and fully realized, whose very personal yield universal claims. At the heart of this poetry's fanaticism is the search for the ground of intimacy and the configurations of identity. It is a measure of Pope's skill that each recognition seems powerfully right, not sought but given.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer poems give voice to a life deeply felt and fully realized, whose very personal visions yield universal claims. At the heart of this poetry's fanaticism is the search for the ground of intimacy and the configurations of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Pope is professor of English at Duke University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9.03 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757665812768,"sku":"9780807117484","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0e3f9ba033cff9456da8e2b2f2016455.webp?v=1780108282","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fanatic-heart-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}