Madly in Love by Aliki Barnstone (1997, Paperback) 
Madly in Love by Aliki Barnstone (1997, Paperback)
Author: Aliki Barnstone
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0887482481
ISBN-13: 9780887482489
Product ID: EPID260920
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Madly in Love : Aliki Barnstone (Paperback, 1997)
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Publication Date:1997-04-01

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Length:67 pages
Height:8.8 in
Width:5.5 in
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Weight:4.0 oz

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"Late one summer night he tore through/ her latched screen door, his trousers/ in his hand, and declared his love." So begins the title poem, which leads off a charmed yet haunting collection that tracks and explores the weather patterns of longing, depression and despair. The "he" in the above quote is a librarian perhaps the ultimate personification of quiet desperation and his madness is par for Barnstone's passionate summers of "tornadoes, rivers flooding their banks,// agitated dreams, desire." In winter, however, yearnings are safely packed in ice; complacency and melancholia are the snowfall, and the only visitors to the poet's bed are the ghosts of a suicide uncle and grandfather. Spring arrives with insistence, "irises poke green/ butterknives through dark dirt," and Barnstone takes to the water a shower, a bath, a swim in the river to soothe her body, with hope that love and sex will converge and her heart will rise. Scattered throughout these 29 poems are phrases borrowed from Emily Dickinson. Indeed, Dickinson's influence is apparent in Barnstone's deceptively simple lines, a matter-of-factness that seems to come straight from her bloodstream and a hushed urgency that is deafening. (Apr.)
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