The Profile Makers: Poems

by Linda Bierds

Book Overview

Beauty of language, dazzling imagination, and a fierce empathy for her subjects distinguishes Linda Bierd's poetry and has made her "America's premier poet of description" (the HUDSON REVIEW). Whether... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805055363
• ISBN13: 9780805055368
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Owl Publishing Company
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

One of our best contemporary poets in top form.

The language and perceptions are at all times rich and surprising. Individuality without self-display. Powerful imagination but always in service of a vision both broad and detailed. Intoxicating work, often historically rooted.

Magnificent

This is a first-rate collection. Bierds explores questions of image, frame and contour in poems which trace, in a sense, a modern history of representation. A glorious example is her "The Breaking-Aways," an elegant poem which begins with Samuel Morse's astonished reaction to his own invention and which ends with his rhythmic remembrance of a childhood encounter with a mysterious sound in the forest, when he "made from that / scream, from that wondrous outrush, / something apart from wonder." Very highly recommended.