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Kat Among the Tigers de Kath MacLean

Kat Among the Tigers

Autor Kath MacLean
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 feb 2011
Exemplar of the Moderns, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), is reanimated by postmodern diva Kath MacLean in a tantric work of literary ventriloquism. But who is animating whom? "Sentences are punctuated with her rattle and cough; phrases burn with her fever. The world slants as she leans upon her walking stick to stroll out by the sea, or winces in pain when she moves her arm across a sheet of paper. To write, to record the stories living in her head with urgency and tremendous energy for someone so very ill, astounds, humbles, and inspires me to keep at it." (Kath MacLean) Katherine Mansfield fans and scholars, and readers who appreciate poetry that refuses to back down, should read Kat Among the Tigers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780888645524
ISBN-10: 088864552X
Pagini: 96
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 133 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada

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FRONT FLAP: Inspired by the journals and correspondence of Katherine Mansfield, Kat Among the Tigers is a sequence of narrative poems that chronicles Mansfield's short, bohemian life against the cultural upheaval of the early twentieth century. MacLean's fugue-like rhythms, authentic voicing, and provocative imagery will seduce admirers of both Mansfield and MacLean as well as scholars of modernist literature and postmodernist play. "I tried to read Kat Among the Tigers dispassionately but failed miserably. It brought me out in goose bumps. These poems present a very real portrait of my Great Aunt, both in her simplicities and her complexities." -Janine Renshaw-Beauchamp "Kath MacLean brings off what is really rather magical. I admire the bravura of these poems, their technical poise, their reach towards an overarching statement on modernity, and the meeting of minds. Together, these construct a 'personality' which exists as a rich, poetic fact." -Vincent O'Sullivan BACK FLAP: Kath MacLean is a professor of creative writing in Edmonton, Alberta. Her first book of poetry, For a Cappuccino on Bloor, received much acclaim, winning the New Muse Award. She recently recorded Seed Bone & Hammer, a CD of performance poetry, and produced a poetry video, There Was A Young Man. MacLean was a 2009/2010 Writer in Residence for the Canadian Author's Association. Visit her online at http://www.kathmaclean.com. BACK COVER: It's the perfect gesture creeping upon the shore lifting one's hat to the unholy sun greeting the mountain's blinking eye hiss hiss when no one is looking. When no one is looking, when I'm quite sure I'm alone shaking this threadbare night pen dragging its quill across the page, one-legged, smudges the story, marks the spot- where my great bird spreads its wings, unannounced, moment by moment tipping my hat to a sink full of smoldering cigarettes, matchsticks burning room to room, dark, then light, this spot on the lung and its terrible hiss- And all the time, all the time I think of you. -from "Pantomime of the Sea"
"Kath MacLean is recognized as one of Edmonton's most eclectic poet-performers, her unique muse and creative delivery attract attention wherever she reads. Known for rich images, 'breath-taking lyricism' and musicality, her award-winning poetry, prose, and non-fiction is generating critical acclaim across Canada." The Toronto Quarterly, April 20, 2011 [Full review at http://thetorontoquarterly.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-month-kath-maclean-kat-among.html]
"Inspired by the journals and correspondence of Katherine Mansfield, Kat Among the Tigers is drawing rave reviews from poetry fans and fellow writers. Kath MacLean has outdone herself once again with her excellent use of imagery and rhythms.... The local writer of poetry, prose and non-fiction has gained national acclaim as a poet-performer, with her creative delivery attracting attention wherever she reads." Heather Andrews Miller, Real Estate Weekly, May 26, 2011 [Full article at http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view_rew?CONTENT_ID=3117]
"In Kat Among the Tigers, Kath MacLean has not exactly become more Katherine Mansfield than KM could ever be, but she has lived so closely with her subject and done such careful, exhaustive research that she has certainly 'created her anew,' caught the freedom and intensity of her voice in this elegant, polished sequence of poems, a string of epiphanies and musings rooted in Katherine Mansfield's life. Within the poems, repetition, refrain, affection for littleness, off-rhyme all help create Katherine Mansfield's voice anew. Those who have read Katherine Mansfield may delight in finding phrases that link these poems to the journals, in fitting the various poems to places and times in Katherine Mansfield's life. Those who haven't read Mansfield will catch their breath at lines like 'One tires of tigers with tales thumping / fashionable accounts of nothing.' and 'How do you wild the tame?'.... Readers of Katherine Mansfield will want to put this book next to her stories, journals and letters. Those who have never read Katherine Mansfield will be impressed by Kath MacLean's assured, polished poetry. Whether or not you know Katherine Mansfield's work, Kat Among the Tigers is an impressive achievement." Elizabeth Greene, Prairie Fire Review of Books, Vol. 11, No. 2