Red Rover is both the name of a children's game and a formless spirit, a god of release and permission, called upon in the course of that game. The "red rover" is also a thread of desire, and a clue to the forces of love and antipathy that shape our fate. In her most innovative work to date, award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart remembers the antithetical forces-falling and rising, coming and going, circling and centering-revealed in such games and traces them out to many other cycles. Ranging among traditional, open, and newly-invented forms, and including a series of free translations of medieval dream visions and love poems, Red Rover begins as a historical meditation on our fall and grows into a song of praise for the green and turning world.
| ISBN: | 9780226774558 |
| Publication date: | 19th April 2011 |
| Author: | Susan Stewart |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 105 pages |
| Series: | Phoenix Poets |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Red Rover is both the name of a children's game and a formless spirit, a god of release and permission, called upon in the course of that game. The "red rover" is also a thread of desire, and a clue to the forces of love and antipathy that shape our fate. In her most innovative work to date, award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart remembers the antithetical forces-falling and rising, coming and going, circling and centering-revealed in such games and traces them out to many other cycles. Ranging among traditional, open, and newly-invented forms, and including a series of free translations of medieval dream visions and love poems, Red Rover begins as a historical meditation on our fall and grows into a song of praise for the green and turning world.
Red Rover features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
Red Rover is available in Paperback, Hardback
Red Rover was written by Susan Stewart and published by The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press
Red Rover has 105 pages
Yes it is part of Phoenix Poets series