To Forget Venice?is the improbable challenge and the title of Peg Boyers's newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city of Venice is both adored and reviled by the speakers in this varied and unconventionally polyphonic work. The voices we hear in these poems belong not only to characters like the mother of Tadzio (think?Death in?Venice), or the companion of Vladimir Ilych Lenin, or the Victorian prophet John Ruskin and his wife, Effie, but also to wall moss, and sand, and?most especially?an authorial speaker who in 1965, at age thirteen, landed in Venice and never quite recovered from the formative experiences that shaped her there. Ranging over several stages of a life that features adolescent heartbreak and betrayal, marriage and children, friendship and loss, the book insistently addresses the author's desire to get to the bottom of her obsession with a place that has imprinted itself so profoundly on her consciousness.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226181264
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209001740
Product Key Features
Book Title
To Forget Venice
Author
Peg Boyers
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
86 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
233mm
Item Width
167mm
Item Weight
204g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Peg Boyers
Series Title
Phoenix Poets (Chup)
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Best Selling in Books
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Books