{"product_id":"street-view-poems-paperback","title":"Street View: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaryann Corbett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaryann Corbett's \u003cem\u003eStreet View\u003c\/em\u003e is a panorama of views: suburban and urban avenues, shown in leaf and in snow; alleyways where misfits lurk in darkness, but also where \"Adonis, charioteer of municipal waste collection, rides with the morning\"; and boulevards of old buildings whose elegance remains undeniable, even when \"prinked in the clown suit of commerce.\" \u003cem\u003eStreet View\u003c\/em\u003e also navigates the resiliency and failings of the human body, and the memories of family and pivotal acquaintances that shape viewpoints for good or ill. This is the work of a seasoned poet in command of her craft, and deservedly, a finalist for the 2016 Able Muse Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR STREET VIEW: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssaulted, as we all are, by relentless, restless noise-throbbing subwoofers, urban construction, cynical marketing and violent news, even our own banal chitchat-Maryann Corbett \"strafe[s] back with the whole Roget\/ and gun[s her] engine to its own rough strife. . . .\" Though her weapons, her engines, are stillness, insight, and rhythm, there is indeed a sense in which the poems in \u003cem\u003eStreet View\u003c\/em\u003e wallop their subjects with language. The exquisite, seemingly effortless grace of these poems with their penetrating music and humor deserve a commendation like that the poet gives Veronese: \"This is the catechesis\/ we need now, for the kind of sight we work with\/ here, where the world kabooms.\"\u003cbr\u003e -George David Clark\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGiven her gift with detail, Maryann Corbett is the perfect person to offer a view, but an even more perfect person to offer a \"street view,\" the title of her new collection. While Corbett has made a career of being precise, she can be whimsical as well, right down to the \"Northrop Mall . . . as fixed and formal as an English sonnet.\" Yet perhaps her greatest strength is that she is not afraid to be the quiet steady gaze that takes in everything: all the things most people would miss.\u003cbr\u003e -Kim Bridgford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaryann Corbett takes the ode less traveled (not to mention the terzanelle less tried and the dactylic hexameter almost unheard of) to oddly familiar destinations: the West Side Y in New York City, Grand Avenue in St. Paul, the dentist's clinic. She is a rhapsodist of times past and places lost or endangered, but she also lives very much in the present. She examines experiences with shrewdness and fascination, crafting them into poems that are breathtaking in their intelligence and brio.\u003cbr\u003e -Susan McLean\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Maryann Corbett's new book, we are given a \u003cem\u003eStreet View\u003c\/em\u003e on the world, from Minneapolis to Jerusalem. These streets are populated with a variety of town characters, from the vagrant to the dangerous academic \"Weirdo\" with his void-sucked soul who makes one think of mass killings. Suffice it to say that the street view might be uglier than the view onto the mountains or the ocean, but in that ugliness can be found a clearer view on the truth of how we live today.\u003cbr\u003e -Tony Barnstone\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaryann Corbett was born in Washington, DC, grew up in McLean, Virginia, and has lived in Minnesota since 1972 and in Saint Paul since 1986. Trained as a medievalist and linguist, she earned a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota and spent almost thirty-five years working for the Minnesota Legislature as an in-house writing teacher, editor, and indexer. Her poetry is widely published and has won such awards as the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and the Richard Wilbur Award.\u003cbr\u003e She is the author of the books \u003cem\u003eCredo for the Checkout Line in Winter\u003c\/em\u003e also from Able Muse Press, \u003cem\u003eBreath Control, Mid Evil, \u003c\/em\u003e as well as the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eGardening in a Time of War\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDissonance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 11, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42742158753855,"sku":"9781927409909","price":25.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/de37ec090deaf1406a5af1789133b8ba.webp?v=1765162899","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/street-view-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}