Read <i>Reactor</i> and let Vollmer refresh your geography in startling ways."—Robin Becker "If Literature is ‘a study in comparative humanity,’ and I think it is, <i>Reactor</i> places new emphasis on our complicitous age of nuclear fission at all levels of conscientiousness, in the strategies of high brow expatriots, and Vollmer’s identification with the ‘lowest of the low’ wayfaring strangers, a high-wire act among her pantheon of peasant witnesses. This archeology of tonalities, sometimes evinced with compelling lines from her literary ancestors, connects the fierce remembrance of ‘family,’ hers and ours. We have a new vocabulary of songmaking, ancient and modern."—Michael S. Harper, poet laureate emeritus, State of Rhode Island

Reactor gives voice to beloved and ruined American landscapes through extended meditations of an urban mystical wanderer.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780299199401
Publisert
2004-04-21
Utgiver
University of Wisconsin Press; University of Wisconsin Press
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
88

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Judith Vollmer is professor of English and director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. She is the author of three other poetry collections including The Door is Open to the Fire and Level Green, the 1990 winner of the Brittingham Poetry Prize.