2010 National Book Award Finalist,
Poetry
Kathleen Graber
The Eternal City
Princeton University Press
Photo credit: Lawrence
Graber
ABOUT THE BOOK
With an epigraph from Freud comparing the mind to a landscape in which all that ever was still persists, The Eternal City offers eloquent testimony to the struggle to make sense of the present through conversation with the past. Questioning what it means to possess and to be possessed by objects and technologies, Kathleen Graber's collection brings together the elevated and the quotidian to make neighbors of Marcus Aurelius, Klaus Kinski, Walter Benjamin, and Johnny Depp. Like Aeneas, who escapes Troy carrying his father on his back, the speaker of these intellectually and emotionally ambitious poems juggles the weight of private and public history as she is transformed from settled resident to pilgrim.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathleen Graber teaches
in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth
University. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker
and The American Poetry Review, among other
publications. Her first collection, Correspondence,
was published in 2006.
SUGGESTED LINKS
Princeton University Press'
webpage for The Eternal City
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9282.html
VIDEO - YouTube:
Kathleen Graber reads two poems from The Eternal
City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB-z-P179tM
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