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TWIN CITIES
"Exploding with capacity and ambition, Carol Muske-Dukes' new poems are the strongest yet from a poet whose work has long been essential reading. Twin Cities formal and architectural intelligence is stunning, as well as heart-stopping in its insight into 'how damage is made.' The richness of the language is made to carry the maximum bearable amount of emotion - political, spiritual, social, familial, erotic - via brightly-lit imagery which astounds with its originality, felicity, and honesty."
-- Jorie Graham
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SPARROW
"SPARROW is a powerful, compelling journey from the loss of a personal paradise to the regaining that follows. Carol Muske-Dukes shows us how grief can be stabilized by craft and sense brought to bear on anguish, one careful line of poetry at a time."
--Billy Collins
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Married
to the Icepick Killer
A Poet in Hollywood
Prizewinning poet and novelist Carol Muske-Dukes offers
smart, entertaining stories and reflections about the unpredictable
marriage of L.A. and literature.
(See
Reviews of Married to the Icepick Killer).
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AN
OCTAVE ABOVE THUNDER
Carol Muske is a beautiful, ambitious poet who has not rested
on her gifts for language and cadence. She has chosen instead
to let a musical light become the infinitely more testing light
of disaster and interrogation."
--Eavan Boland |
RED
TROUSSEAU
"With Red Trousseau, Carol Muske achieves the insight, emotional
accuracy, and terrifying sureness of moral discernment she has
always sought. She surveys human relations with an acid clairvoyance
through which the reckless currents of personal and cultural history
course, ripping away all but the essential tones of the human
conversation with its humanity: terror, sometimes courage, excessive
need, and the stubborn twin habits of hope and representation.
This is urgent and beautifully confident work."
--Jorie Graham
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WYNDMERE
Wyndmere
performs a rare feat: it celebrates love in all its vagaries
without the slightest self-indulgence or self-importance. Muske's
tone, as she observes her own fears and passions, is bemused
and restrained; her eye is always on the object.
--Marjorie Perloff
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| APPLAUSE
The author
says of this book: "Applause is a collection of poems about
joy and dread, the two conditions of spirit with which I am most
familiar. Regarding the title, applause is always a political,
communal gesture, even if only one person claps -- by clapping
she makes herself plural. What a strange phenomenon, to be single
and plural at once, to feel joy and dread simultaneously, to wish
to acknowledge publicly one's anonymity".
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WOMEN
AND POETRY
Truth,
Autobiography, and the Shape of Self
In the present
climate of truth-telling, autobiography, and testimony, the
positioning of the self as autobiographical referrent in poetry
has become central to our reading of poems by women. In Women
and Poetry, poet Carol Muske critically examines her evolving
attitudes on the subject of women poets and the self.
--University of Pittsburgh
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SKYLIGHT
"On a dark day, when I've read too much, and all the poets
start turning into each other, I like to think about Carol Muske,
who only turns into more wonderful versions of herself. Her dazzle
and virtuosity are one of a kind: Mozartean. That's as high as
I know how to go".
--Carolyn Kizer
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CAMOUFLAGE
Lies, wishes, fantasies-all the weaponry of compassionate imagination
at war with society-deploy with delicious satire in Muske's first
book.
--Library Journal |
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