Becoming Bone: Poems on the Life of Celia Thaxter (1836-1894) Paperback - 2005
by Annie Boutelle
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In the long tradition of biography-in-poetry collections, Annie Boutelle s first collection probes the layered life of one of nineteenth-century America s most popular poets, who is now almost forgotten. The Celia Thaxter who speaks these poems disturbs the placid myth created around her public persona, and focuses on the fierce mysteries and ironies that frame her. Boutelle carefully reveals Thaxter s childhood on the stark Isles of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast; the trap of a Victorian marriage; the struggle to invent herself as writer and painter; her celebrated circle of friends, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Childe Hassam; and the hard-won serenity of her last decade. Clear, airy, crystalline, these poems move us into an elemental world where nothing is left but water, / air, and the uncertain space between. With restraint and lyric tenderness, Boutelle leads us toward a woman who shifts from pose to necessary pose, who survives in these pages with intelligence and grace: The grave / flesh melts. What s left / is light as bone. "
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- Title Becoming Bone: Poems on the Life of Celia Thaxter (1836-1894)
- Author Annie Boutelle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 104
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville
- Date 2005-07
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9781557287977 / 155728797X
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.58 x 0.32 in (21.84 x 14.17 x 0.81 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Women painters, Women gardeners
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005000614
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.6
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- Library Journal, 10/01/2005, Page 79
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2006, Page 1
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