<i>Ornament</i> is a kind of tribute album. The poet, who is also a banjo player, pays tribute in many poems to the old-time music of the Carolinas, and like the music, her poems are marked by bursts of lyric beauty, deft storytelling, and haunting set pieces."" - Geoffrey Brock, author of <i>Voices Bright Flags </i>and <em>judge</em>

In this debut collection, Anna Lena Phillips Bell explores the foothills of the Eastern U.S., and the old-time Appalachian tunes and Piedmont blues she was raised to love. With formal dexterity—in ballads and sonnets, Sapphics and amphibrachs—the poems in Ornament traverse the permeable boundary between the body and the natural world.
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In this debut collection, Anna Lena Phillips Bell explores the foothills of the Eastern US, and the old-time Appalachian tunes and Piedmont blues she was raised to love. With formal dexterity - in ballads and sonnets, Sapphics and amphibrachs - the poems in Ornament traverse the permeable boundary between the body and the natural world.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781574416657
Publisert
2016-12-30
Utgiver
Vendor
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Vekt
525 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
84

Biographical note

Anna Lena Phillips Bell's poems have appeared in the Southern Review, 32 Poems, and Poetry International. The recipient of an NC Arts Council Fellowship, she teaches at UNC Wilmington and is editor of Ecotone. She lives with her family near the Cape Fear River.