âWhat is the difference, asks Martha Rhodes, between forgetting and being forgotten? Why do our most primal images of self-definition - the house, the childhood bedroom, the motherâs body - become more vaporous the more we speak? The poems of Mother Quiet donât just ask these questions; they inhabit these questions. . . . âThe inside of her mouth was black and airless,â says Rhodes of the dead mother, and the image is at once a poetâs blessing and a poetâs curse. Weird, dark, hilarious, direct, otherworldly - these poems display a poet in command of every note the English language is capable of sounding. They will not be silenced: they are unforgettable.â - James Longenbach, author of Fleet River and Modern Poetry after Modernism. Martha Rhodes is the author of two previous collections, Perfect Disappearance and At the Gate. She teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, New School University, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is a founding editor and the director of the independent literary press Four Way Books.
| ISBN: | 9781932023183 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 2004 |
| Author: | Martha Rhodes |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press an imprint of Nebraska Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 61 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
âWhat is the difference, asks Martha Rhodes, between forgetting and being forgotten? Why do our most primal images of self-definition - the house, the childhood bedroom, the motherâs body - become more vaporous the more we speak? The poems of Mother Quiet donât just ask these questions; they inhabit these questions. . . . âThe inside of her mouth was black and airless,â says Rhodes of the dead mother, and the image is at once a poetâs blessing and a poetâs curse. Weird, dark, hilarious, direct, otherworldly - these poems display a poet in command of every note the English language is capable of sounding. They will not be silenced: they are unforgettable.â - James Longenbach, author of Fleet River and Modern Poetry after Modernism. Martha Rhodes is the author of two previous collections, Perfect Disappearance and At the Gate. She teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, New School University, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is a founding editor and the director of the independent literary press Four Way Books.
Mother Quiet features in the following genres: Poetry
Mother Quiet is available in Paperback
Mother Quiet was written by Martha Rhodes and published by University of Nebraska Press an imprint of Nebraska Paperback
Mother Quiet has 61 pages