Sibilance : poems /
"The noun "sibilance" refers to the various pronunciations of the letter "s," including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren's fourth collection, the word alerts readers to the sounds of language in the poems that follow in abece...
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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2023]
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| Summary: | "The noun "sibilance" refers to the various pronunciations of the letter "s," including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren's fourth collection, the word alerts readers to the sounds of language in the poems that follow in abecedarian order. Sibilance also pulsates in the titles of her previous books and in her first name. The short lyric poems in Sibilance emerge out of Van Doren's morning writing practice. She has filled over 12,000 notebook pages with illegible handwriting that she calls polysemic drawings. Occasionally, legible words appear in these scrawled meditations, giving rise to the poems assembled here. Among them, readers will find musings on abstract art and the passage of time alongside scenes of gardens, nursing homes, and extramarital affairs. The voice, while often viscerally rooted in the physicality of the body, is relentlessly on the hunt for a stable self in its shifting surroundings. At times, the poems present a domestic interior world turned inside out. At others, they reflect a mind bombarded by letters and sounds in frenetic pursuit of melding them together to create and form a memorable melody. The alliteration and repetition of sibilance in the word itself serves as apt context for the wordplay throughout Van Doren's poems, which vacillate between the extremes of joy and despair, by turns witty and chagrined, punning and reflective"-- |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) |
| ISBN: | 9780807180617 0807180610 9780807180624 0807180629 |
