A Gathering of Matter, a Matter of Gathering

Download or read book A Gathering of Matter, a Matter of Gathering written by Dawn Lundy Martin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking "I." Martin's poems bend the form into something new, seeing a way to approach the horrific and its effect on the psyche more fully than might be possible in the worn groove of the traditional lyric. Her formal inventiveness is balanced by a firm grounding in bodily experience and in the amazing capacity of language to expand itself in Martin's hands. She explodes any pretense at a world where words mean exactly what we want them to mean and never more nor less -- Back cover.