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9780801863394 Academic Inspection Copy

In the Crevice of Time

New and Collected Poems
  • ISBN-13: 9780801863394
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Josephine Jacobsen
  • Price: AUD $71.99
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2000
  • Format: Paperback 296 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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Josephine Jacobsen's distinguished career as poet and writer spans more than six decades, from the publication of her first poem at age eleven to her 1994 American Academy of the Arts Citation, which celebrated her as a recipient of ''almost every major poetry award.'' From 1971 to 1973 she served two terms as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a post recently retitled National Poet Laureate. Now in paperback, In the Crevice of Time brings together 176 new and previously published poems by one of the most accomplished and most widely acclaimed poets of our time. Praise for Josephine Jacobsen and her work: ''Josephine Jacobsen's poetry . . . demonstrates not only scrupulous verbal craft but a kind of auditory seriousness, a preference for depth and precision over mere charm or beauty.''–New York Times ''Josephine Jacobsen's mind is exquisite and urbane, which is not to say that it has confined itself to salon conversation or academic discourse . . . Formal and fastidious, Jacobsen meditates on death–oh, not because she herself is aging, nothing even faintly vulgar like that–because of her apprehension of our fleshly frailty.''–Washington Post ''Wry, meticulous, compassionate, she casts her diaphanous net over the widest range of subjects, from the dailiness of breakfast with the morning paper ('I spill coffee on a head of state') to the distant apocalypse when the cockroach ('he will be blind/not sterile') inherits the earth.''–San Francisco Review of Books ''Healthful and pure, protein and green salad for the mind.''–Parnassus: Poetry in Review ''Josephine Jacobsen writes masterfully, consistently, and better every year. She has a superb narrative gift and she sketches the people of her world with originality, inventiveness, and rare intelligence.''–Nation ''Josephine Jacobsen's quietly articulated observations have the dark resonance of great art. Her spare diction combines the passionate commitment of Louise Bogan with the precision and compactness of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore. Her best work, done in her seventies and eighties, has won her almost every major poetry award.''–American Academy of Arts Citation, 1994

""The collected poems of a greatly gifted poet may not offer the suspense of a well-plotted novel, but there is still a certain drama in seeing the art of a life's work fitted between the covers of one book... The recent poems that make up the last section are some of Jacobsen's very best.""

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