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Tremolo
by Alice Derry
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1597092320
- ISBN 13
- 9781597092326
- Seller
-
Poulsbo, Washington, United States
Item Price
€2.84€2.56
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About This Item
Tremolo can be contained in the line from Theodore Roethke's villanelle, "The Waking": "This shaking keeps me steady. I should know." In music, tremolo describes notes which are repeated in time, as opposed to trill, notes which stand outside the composition's basic beat. In the same way, our lives often cannot "claim their own space," but are forced to fit circumstance. The effect is tremulous: we are full of trembling, easily shaken. The book journeys through terrain where the speaker must accept what she's given: a mother's death, a daughter's leaving home, a father's dementia, a life compromised by war, prejudice, and violence, the myriad fearful situations of each day. The poems search for safety, ultimately understanding that the steadiness the speaker knows comes from taking the path in front of her, fully embracing her trembling. The wisdom of these poems is garnered from journeys the speaker fears, but must undertake. As Roethke writes, "I learn by going where I have to go."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lemolo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 702
- Title
- Tremolo
- Author
- Alice Derry
- Format/Binding
- Minor shelf ware
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1597092320
- ISBN 13
- 9781597092326
- Publisher
- Red Hen Press
- Place of Publication
- Pasadena, Ca
- Date Published
- 2012-09
- Pages
- 112
- Keywords
- poetry, women, world inspired poems
- Bookseller catalogs
- poetry;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.