Lovely Asunder

Download or read book Lovely Asunder written by Danielle Cadena Deulen and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danielle Cadena Deulen's debut collection, Lovely Asunder, is filled with beautiful dangers. These poems, sharp and graceful, brutal and vulnerable, create from language a kind of chiaroscuro-both light and dark made more vivid by their juxtaposition. Throughout the collection, the poet appraises ancient myths through a feminine and feminist perspective, evincing the ways in which narratives transform personal experience and vice versa. The figure of the fruit, in all its implied and literal lushness, recurs like a chorus, and the speakers of these poems are haunted by the Fall-confined by the body, the mind, and the irrevocable past.