Darkling
- ISBN-10
- 0971031045
- ISBN-13
- 9780971031043
- Series
- Darkling
- Pages
- 85
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Tupelo Press
- Author
- Anna Rabinowitz
Description
Poetry. "DARKLING is a book-length sequence of elegiac fragments, obsessive ruminations on the lives of the poet's Polish-Jewish parents, grandparents, as well as her own, filtered through the eyes of an extraordinarily clear-eyed contemporary witness. It would be easy to sentimentalize the events portrayed - the childhood memory, for example, of nearly losing one's little brother because of one's own carelessness - but Rabinowitz's technical brilliance, allusive texture, verbal and rhythmic precision, and especially her self-irony give these lyrics their razor edge, their air of hard-earned authenticity. This is a deeply moving book" - Marjorie Perloff.
