New and Selected Poems 1961-1996

By Rochelle Owens

Poetry. "Although well known as a playwright, Owens is yet another talented poet who has not received her due because her poems are neither easy nor easily classifiable. Owens is, firstly, a political poet. She presents readers with reconstructed and sometimes wholly imagined 'historical' events in an attempt to expose what she feels has been neglected or overlooked. Thus in 'Luca: Discourse on Life and Death, ' Owens's most recent (and most accomplished) work, the reader is confronted with an extensive investigation of Leonardo da Vinci's atelier during the composition of Mona Lisa. Both the artistic processes and the human relationships involved are dissected in writing that is playfully anachronistic and critically insightful" Publishers Weekly. "In its uncompromising savagery, its passionate rejection of sentimentality, Rochelle Owens's lyric voice is unique among contemporary poets. An astonishing body of work" Marjorie Perloff."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881523063
• ISBN13: 9781881523062
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Junction Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"