Ebook {Epub PDF} Song Error: Poems by Averill Curdy

A lyric poet influenced by Donne, Hopkins, Merrill, and Auden, Averill Curdy notes, “In my own work, the aural quality and weight of words is very important and I think it’s partly an attempt to make them feel as material as the smears of color on a painter’s palette.” Her meditative, dense lines are smoothed by time; as Curdy explains, “I write slowly—always, it seems, at the very. Averill Curdy. A lyric poet influenced by Donne, Hopkins, Merrill, and Auden, Averill Curdy notes, “In my own work, the aural quality and weight of words is very important and I think it’s partly an attempt to make them feel as material as the smears of color on a painter’s palette.”. Her meditative, dense lines are smoothed by time; as /5. In the sonically rich, formally restless poems of this debut collection, Song Error, the thread that unravels all we think we know of the world is plucked loose and drawn from a seal's beached corpse. Uniting past and present, history and autobiography, Averill Curdy's poems strive to endure within "the crease of transformation" and to speak-sing-of that terrible beauty/5(6).

A poem by Averill Curdy: "Even shorn of its dashes and tamed for children, the poem / speaks from their textbook with the wisdom of the doll.". Almost everything about Song Error, the first book of poems by Averill Curdy, gives one pause. From the mafia-stop abruptness of the first line to the icy final phrase, this book makes an impression. Life. She received her MFA from the University of Houston and her PhD from the University of Missouri. Curdy worked as an arts administrator and as a marketing manager and technical editor. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Raritan and the Kenyon Review. She lives in Chicago and is a Professor at Northwestern University.

Song Error: Poems by Averill Curdy. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, , I’ve followed Curdy closely since, through regular appearances in Poetry and The Paris Review. Now, at last, her long-awaited debut Song and Error, forthcoming this March from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language,” said W.H. Auden. Averill Curdy poems, quotations and biography on Averill Curdy poet page. Read all poems of Averill Curdy and infos about Averill Curdy. SONG ERROR.