The Book of Hulga (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0299308146 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Thoughtful book of poems for Flannery O'Connor fans" according to Peter. Thought provoking book of poetry which should be read by fans of Flannery O'Connor. Some of the poems are absolutely beautiful and have great clarity while others are more complex. I would love to have some of the poems explained to me by the poet. Although not essential, it is helpful to have read some of O'Connor's biography and short stories before reading. This is a beautiful collection. I highly recommend it Amazon Customer This is a beautiful collection. I highly recommend it. Reese's elegant and thoughtful poems bring together a range of meditations that are at once arresting and moving, generous, exacting, and deeply felt. The formal dexterity--crowns of sonnets, brief lyrics, longer narratives--is wonderful, too. On a practical level, it was refreshing to think intensely and. goodwordgirl said and a good poem is hard to find. We know that all words that rise don't converge, and a good poem is hard to find, except in this latest award-winning collection by the astonishingly talented Rita Mae Reese."The Book of Hulga" is just plain flat-out beautiful.
She hits many high points during The Book of Hulga, but perhaps the highest is her recognition that what made O'Connor legendary was her theological uniqueness, her ability to gaze into the grotesque and see God. Flannery O’Connor would have kept The Book of Hulga on her bedside table.”—Amy Newman, author of Dear Editor. Will non-Flannery fans enjoy the book as well? It's hard to say (having never been one). Play it safe and pick up a copy of O'Connor's short stories at the bookstore while you're buying The Book of Hulga." --Tahoma Literary Review“Like the peacock lifting that magnificent tail into an arch, Rita Mae Reese’s poems o
Original illustrations by Julie Franki further illuminate Reese’s imaginative verse biography of a modern-day hillbilly saint.. The Book of Hulga speculates—with humor, tenderness, and a brutal precision—on a character that Flannery O’Connor envisioned but did not live long enough to write: “the angular intellectual proud woman approaching God inch by inch with ground teeth.” These striking poems look to the same sources that O’Connor sought out, from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Edgar Allan Poe to Simone Weil