{"product_id":"the-muscled-truce-poems-9780807128909","title":"The Muscled Truce: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her fifth full-length collection, poet Catharine Savage Brosman gracefully employs a wide array of forms and styles to address the ontological question--the problem of being, including the \"momentary flame\" of human life--and the complexity of relationships with others and with oneself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first section, \"A Distant Shore,\" introduces characters chronologically from King Minos to D. H. Lawrence--mythological, historical, or anonymous travelers of one kind or another--who are given voice through Brosman's craft in seamless transitions among free verse, blank verse, and rhyme. In the second part, \"The Muscled Truce,\" twelve short poems in rhymed iambic tetrameter describe activities, from beekeeping and gardening to skating and winegrowing, as ways of encountering the world, acting on it, and meeting its demands. The book closes with \"A Cosmic Comedy,\" in which works about contemporary, often mundane situations reinforce earlier metaphysical concerns of nature, religion, aging, and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt turns witty and weighty, personal and universal, \u003ci\u003eThe Muscled Truce\u003c\/i\u003e bears Brosman's indelible emotional imprint and reveals her amazing technical flexibility, continuing her tradition of writing \"poetry that might legitimately be assigned a vintage\" \u003ci\u003e(Baton Rouge Advocate)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catharine Savage Brosman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.10w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807128909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2003 pg. 635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatharine Savage Brosman's creative works include four previous poetry volumes, most recently \u003ci\u003ePlaces in Mind, \u003c\/i\u003e and two books of essays. A native of Colorado and longtime resident of New Orleans, she is a professor emerita of French at Tulane University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161546141811,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_36e0bb23-6ede-4dc0-8e9f-443e38b8fad9.jpg?v=1654954764","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-muscled-truce-poems-9780807128909","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}