The Red Bird
by McSweeney, JoyelleEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-04-01
Publisher(s): Fence Books
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Summary
With the persistent, dappled vision of an ecstatic pragmatist, Joyelle McSweeney sees things as they are through "the modern knothole": "Up on the hill,/ a white tent had just got unsteadily to its feet/ like a foal or a just-foaled cathedral." Eventuality, as it is delicately shaded by the fine and fearless intelligence of these kinesthetic arrangements, coincides with imaginative possibility; the resulting poems are as much mind as place; much galaxy as time-inevitable and correct as only true whimsy can be. "Outside, the web of tenthousandthings;/ inside here, only three: filmstrip of a helicopter's shadow;/ against an Antarctic wall; silkscreen/ of the grand central ceiling. The idealized landscape-/ I want a room in it."
Author Biography
Born in Boston and raised (mostly) in the Philly suburbs, Joyelle McSweeney attended Harvard and Oxford before receiving her MFA from Iowa. She identifies Yeats and the blockbuster art exhibits which toured the Mid-Atlantic in the mid-'nineties as her formative influences. She currently works at the Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology in Iowa City, IA.
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