Restoration

By Christina Pugh

Book Overview

Complex and focused, this collection of poems moves along the line between waking and sleeping to reveal a narrator who is contemplating her origins as well as her future. Pugh frequently turns in her work to the image of a bed--as a source of comfort, an erotic landing, and a place for dreaming. For Pugh, dreams both obscure and reveal, their language a code to be analyzed, as in her longer meditation inspired by Freud's case history "Dora." After dipping dangerously far into dreams, Pugh's poems return to a world of activity, full of physicality before becoming calm. At the end of the book, the self is restored and can see the world through a newly formed lens taken from its dreams.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810152061
• ISBN13: 9780810152069
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.6"