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Volkman Karen

Nomina (American Poets Continuum)

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Karen Volkman’s first book, Crash’s Law, was a National Poetry Series selection, published by W.W. Norton in 1996. Her second book, Spar, received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Introduction to Poetry.

From “Brown is the flat”:

Brown is the flat gestation of a maze,
grass-grown remembrance of a second look
the field holds open like a nascent book
in which the wind has written, Sudden strays,
sudden numbers beat—the roots of days
branched intangibles a stupor took
and slept and stroked and scattered in a shook
haze of wakenings, refracting rays
outleaping their seasons, daughters of a glance
ago—ahead, a retrograde advance.

Crash's Law: Poems (National Poetry Series Books)

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Winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by Heather McHugh.

Through myth, dream, and sensual detail, the poems in this remarkable first collection portray a hectic world plagued by a desire for psychic coherence. The book begins and ends in extremity: the opening poem, "Infernal," evokes the searing realm of an actual and metaphoric Miami, while the final poem, "New Heaven, New Earth," alludes to seeking a path through dense woods amid a blinding, obliterating blizzard. In their longing to define a set of terms for spiritual survival, these essentially lyric poems merge an evocation of contemporary consciousness with the oldest conventions of cry and song.
Spar (Iowa Poetry Prize)

University Of Iowa Press

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Winner of the 2001 Iowa Poetry Prize. Karen Volkman’s award-winning collection Spar has as its central form a highly compressed, musical variant of the prose poem. Volkman develops a new lyric density that marries the immediacy of image-centered poetry to the rhythmic resources of prose. Her first poem begins, “Someone was searching for a Form of Fire,” and this wild urge to seek form—and thus definition—in the most uncontainable of elements propels the book forward; each poem maps the mind’s evolving positions in response to its variable and perilous encounters. Sometimes the encounter is romantic or purely carnal, a sensual landscape of human relations. At other times, nature itself has an almost humanly emotional connection to the speaker.

While very much a living voice, the poems’ speaker is not a consistent self but a mutable figure buffeted by tenderness, terror, irony, or lust into elaborate evasions, exclamations, verbal hijinks, and lyric fiights. As its title suggests, Spar embodies both resistance and aspiration, while its epigraphs further emphasize the simultaneous allure and danger of the unknown within the sensual and material worlds and in the mind itself.

Biography - Volkman, Karen (1967-): An article from: Contemporary Authors

Thomson Gale

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Karen Volkman, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 935 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:
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University Of Montana Faculty, including: Rudy Autio, Karen Volkman, Julia Galloway, Carroll O'connor, Janine Benyus, Kevin Canty, Chris Offutt, Harry ... Vanita, Rodney K. Smith, Patricia Goedicke

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Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book contains chapters focused on University of Montana faculty, and University of Montana-Missoula faculty.
Faculty By University Or College In Montana, including: Rudy Autio, Karen Volkman, Julia Galloway, Carroll O'connor, Janine Benyus, Kevin Canty, Chris ... Ruth Vanita, Rodney K. Smith, Tony Crunk

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Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book contains chapters focused on Faculty by university or college in Montana, University of Montana-Missoula faculty, University of Montana faculty, University of Montana-Missoula faculty, and Montana State University faculty.