Born in Athens, Georgia, Brian Teare grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He earned a BA in English and creative writing from the University of Alabama and an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University. His collections of poetry include The Room Where I Was Born (), winner of the Brittingham Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; Sight Map (); Pleasure (), winner of the . · Brian Teare’s Pleasure begins with an odd fourteen-line prose poem, “Dead House Sonnet,” in which a house has been stripped, burnt, gouged, and taken over by the outside world. The house is a metaphor for language, and especially the act of writing, which continually fails to bear up under the weight of the actual world: “house of each phrase undone verbs burnt tense . A Guggenheim Fellow, Brian Teare is the author of six critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and The Empty Form Goes All the Way to bltadwin.ru most recent book, Doomstead Days, was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards.
Pleasure, by Brian Teare (69 pps/Ahsahta Press, ) ISBN: In Pleasure, poet Brian Teare repossesses one of our oldest stories of identity: the fall from innocence. Pleasure contains an intertwined narrative: in one, a man recounts the experience of watching his loved one sicken and die at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. He. from The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (Ahsahta, ): " Perceiving is the same as receiving and it is the same as responding. ". (at Academy of American Poets) " When we are on the right track, we are rewarded with joy ". (at Academy of American Poets, w/audio) Three poems (at Wordgathering, w/audio) Two poems (at Chicago Review). Find many great new used options and get the best deals for PLEASURE By Brian Teare at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
Addressing an epidemic that is still out of control and claiming lives worldwide, Pleasure represents Teare’s attempt to create a language for the politics of loss. Much like his second collection of poems, Sight Map, Brian Teare’s third collection of poetry, Pleasure, is an exploration of landscapes. Rather than a pastoral inquiry into the nature of the erotic, the beloved, doubt and faith, however, Pleasure concerns itself with a thorny Garden of Eden (“a graveyard garden schemata”). Brian Teare’s Pleasure begins with an odd fourteen-line prose poem, “Dead House Sonnet,” in which a house has been stripped, burnt, gouged, and taken over by the outside world. The house is a metaphor for language, and especially the act of writing, which continually fails to bear up under the weight of the actual world: “house of each phrase undone verbs burnt tense gouge of form, form of the firmament fallen.". Pleasure, by Brian Teare (69 pps/Ahsahta Press, ) ISBN: In Pleasure, poet Brian Teare repossesses one of our oldest stories of identity: the fall from innocence. Pleasure contains an intertwined narrative: in one, a man recounts the experience of watching his loved one sicken and die at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
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