Incontinence
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Published:1st Aug '93
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Charged with sensuality, ferocity, and despair, this sequence of poems follows the progress of a central character's passionate romance. Hahn's fevered book of human emotions becomes a powerful rumination on love, aging, and mutability in general.
"Stitching together tropes about writing and technique, as well as hunting and the loss of sexual innocence, [Hahn] marks and exploits the body with surgical precision in order to explore the peripheries of the personal lyric. She wants to take poetry to the most tangible and sensual extremes. It's often uncomfortable, and yet as often results in a poetry of generous, piercing honesty, as if (to rewrite Bradford) it's by the body we are 'plainly told.'"—David Baker, Poetry
"Incontinence has an enormous, almost epic sweep."—Chicago Sun-Times
ISBN: 9780226312729
Dimensions: 22mm x 14mm x 1mm
Weight: 170g
98 pages