Marabou, Jane Yeh's first book of poems, is a meditation on the nature of artifice, and on the self. Her snapshots freeze fraught instants in the lives of a broad cast of characters: the horror movie mummy, an Elizabethan shoemaker, a flock of Cumbrian sheep; there's Harry Potter's owl and Oscar Wilde, two European princesses...
In these beautifully crafted poems, her personae address the themes of love, lust, glamour and desperation with wit and flair. Hers is the language of fashion, espionage, revenge tragedy; her taut pressure-packed lines combine vivid detail and bold confession and reach unexpected emotional truths.
By:
Jane Yeh
Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 135mm,
Spine: 5mm
Weight: 77g
ISBN: 9781857547887
ISBN 10: 1857547888
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 26 October 2005
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
I Correspondence Double Wedding, 1615 The Pre-Raphaelites Adultery Convent at Haarlem Cumbria The Only Confirmed Cast Member Is Ook the Owl, Who Has Been Tapped To Play the Snowy White Owl Who Delivers Mail for Harry II Bad Quarto Telegraphic Monster Paris, 1899 Teen Spies Biological Blue China Love in a Cold Climate I Love in a Cold Climate II Divining France, 1919 Substitution Defence Portrait at Windsor Seaside Resorts Parliament of Fowls House Fete Champetre Vesuvius (In the Priests' Quarters) III Shoemaker's Holiday Revenger's Tragedy Rhode Island Waltz Alchemy Exercises Self-Portrait After Vermeer Notes
Jane Yeh was born in the United States in 1971 and educated at Harvard University. She holds Master's degrees from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Manchester Metropolitan University. Metre Editions published her chapbook, Teen Spies, in 2003. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Currently Writer in Residence at Kingston University, she contributes articles on books and sport to The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, The Village Voice, and Time Out New York. She lives in London.
Reviews for Marabou
'Marabou is fresh and surprising. If only all first books were this unusual.' Stephen Knight, the Independent on Sunday
- Short-listed for Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2005
- Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Poetry Category 2005
- Shortlisted for Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2005.
- Shortlisted for Whitbread Book Awards: Poetry Category 2005.
