My Shining Archipelago

by Talvikki Ansel

Book Overview

Talvikki Ansel's My Shining Archipelago is the winner of the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Her book gives us a front-row seat in a true Amazon theater where, says James Dickey in his foreword, ""Ansel finds her way of bringing into language the hellish magnificence, the perverse pluralism-more, always more, in the Amazon basin."" This cycle of ""freewheeling sonnets"" (Part II of the book) is cradled between sections of ambitious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300070322
• ISBN13: 9780300070323
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

She shells see shells by the sea sure

Telvicki Ansel communicates the multiple awareness of self, nature, and the unmanefest. She can have you hold a pear as she has held it, and feel the humorous frustration of raising miniature horses. "My Shining Archipelago" is a real find.