Edge

By Claire Malroux

Edge offers a selection of poems from Claire Malroux s previous volumes, published under her nom de plume Claire Sara Roux, with new poems all translated by Marilyn Hacker. From the Translator s Preface: Claire Malroux s poems have no political agenda. But, often enough, they subvert expectations by simply using undramatic womanly quotidian gestures to signify the human universal. A woman s specifically female odors and textures are transmuted into the earth s seasonal modulations: the lipstick poised in the air in front of the bathroom mirror leads to a meditation on fixity, stagnation, and change; the silenced virgins of myth and provincial dining-rooms rise up out of their fathers shadows and claim the power of the word. "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916390748
• ISBN13: 9780916390747
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 9.0"