Mead: An Epithalamion

by Julie Carr

Book Overview

The central subject in Julie Carr's debut poem collection is marriage. Intimacy is examined, not only in terms of the erotic, the quotidian, and the contractual, but also in terms of the intertextual: the pact between reader and writer and the blending of texts that results. Motherhood also figures as a kind of marriage-a bond that includes affective, legal, and sensual elements.

Using a variety of poetic structures--prose poems, stanzaic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820326844
• ISBN13: 9780820326849
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"