Human Nature

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Human Nature by Alice Anderson, NYU Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Alice Anderson ISBN: 9780814707463
Publisher: NYU Press Publication: December 1, 1994
Imprint: NYU Press Language: English
Author: Alice Anderson
ISBN: 9780814707463
Publisher: NYU Press
Publication: December 1, 1994
Imprint: NYU Press
Language: English

Human Nature explores, both seductively and horrificly, the redemptive possibilities found in an American girlhood gone wrong. Every one of Anderson's poems tells a story-dangerous, sensuous, sometimes crazy, sometimes sacred tales that take us into the heartbreaking reality and strangeness of a little girl who grew up the woman of the house; at once drink-maker, showpiece, secret-keeper, and object of lust.
The terrain of incest and violence sets itself out on the page so subtely and plainly that the poems become mere containers for these extremes, a kind of prayer. Where formal grace might seem impossible, Anderson sings. And this is why the book -with all its darkness and danger-is, in the end, an affirmative one. The poems rise out of childhood's sorrows into a womanhood filled with the past, hell-bent on the future, and ready for a fight. In haunting, elegant verse, Anderson enters into the truth of experience. Through it all, the poems come to embrace those universal illuminations that arise out of--or even because of--suffering.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Human Nature explores, both seductively and horrificly, the redemptive possibilities found in an American girlhood gone wrong. Every one of Anderson's poems tells a story-dangerous, sensuous, sometimes crazy, sometimes sacred tales that take us into the heartbreaking reality and strangeness of a little girl who grew up the woman of the house; at once drink-maker, showpiece, secret-keeper, and object of lust.
The terrain of incest and violence sets itself out on the page so subtely and plainly that the poems become mere containers for these extremes, a kind of prayer. Where formal grace might seem impossible, Anderson sings. And this is why the book -with all its darkness and danger-is, in the end, an affirmative one. The poems rise out of childhood's sorrows into a womanhood filled with the past, hell-bent on the future, and ready for a fight. In haunting, elegant verse, Anderson enters into the truth of experience. Through it all, the poems come to embrace those universal illuminations that arise out of--or even because of--suffering.

More books from NYU Press

Cover of the book Beyond the Nation by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Refining Expertise by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Feminist Manifestos by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Self and Other by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Langston's Salvation by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book No Undocumented Child Left Behind by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book In the Spirit of a New People by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Democratic Community by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Women, Love, and Power by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Immigration and Women by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Whose American Revolution Was It? by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Facing the Rising Sun by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Unlimited Potential by Alice Anderson
Cover of the book Torah Queeries by Alice Anderson
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy