Poetry
88 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-31-9
Paper: $14.00
ISBN: 0-910055-30-0
Cloth: $26.00
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The oblique and private darkness of Diana O'Hehir's earlier work has been wrenched open in these new poems, its latent violence confronted. This is her third collection published nearly a decade after her second, and the language reveals a welcome new dimension in this poet's "grave eccentric song." The first-person pronoun, once a closed door, is now open. In this catalogue of farewells, she betrays an otherworldliness that chafes against its own dissociation. The elegiac character of these poems shows us that the human spirit is tenuous in this earthly realm, tethered only by language, by memory and imagination.
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| Diana O'Hehir's reputation as a writer has grown steadily since the 70s, when her first collection of poems, Summoned, received the prestigious Devins Award from the University of Missouri Press in 1976. Her poetry has since received steady praise and admiration from critics, and has appeared regularly in many periodicals. She has recently retired from the English Department at Mills College, where her distinguished teaching career spanned three decades. Ms. O'Hehir now lives with her husband, writer Mel Fiske, in San Francisco. |
