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Scaffolding : Poems / Eléna Rivera.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 133Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691172255
  • 9781400883387
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3568.I8292 A6 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- July 14th From 80 La Salle - Sept. 1st -- Sept. 5th - Oct. 24th -- Oct. 27th (Revised Jan. 28th) - July 17th April 23rd -- Acknowledgments -- Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Summary: Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly reflecting life in New York City. In this, her third book of poetry, Eléna Rivera uses the English sonnet as a scaffold to explore daily events, observations, conversations, thoughts, words, and memories-and to reflect on the work of earlier poets and the relationship between life and literature.Guided by formal and syllabic constraints, the poems become in part an exploration of how form affects content and how other poets have approached the sonnet. The poems, which are very attentive to rhythm and sound, are often in conversation with historical, philosophical, artistic, and literary sources. But at the same time they engage directly with the present moment. Like the construction scaffolding that year after year goes up around buildings all over New York, these poems build on one another and change the way we see what was there before.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- July 14th From 80 La Salle - Sept. 1st -- Sept. 5th - Oct. 24th -- Oct. 27th (Revised Jan. 28th) - July 17th April 23rd -- Acknowledgments -- Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly reflecting life in New York City. In this, her third book of poetry, Eléna Rivera uses the English sonnet as a scaffold to explore daily events, observations, conversations, thoughts, words, and memories-and to reflect on the work of earlier poets and the relationship between life and literature.Guided by formal and syllabic constraints, the poems become in part an exploration of how form affects content and how other poets have approached the sonnet. The poems, which are very attentive to rhythm and sound, are often in conversation with historical, philosophical, artistic, and literary sources. But at the same time they engage directly with the present moment. Like the construction scaffolding that year after year goes up around buildings all over New York, these poems build on one another and change the way we see what was there before.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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