Scaffolding Poems
Scaffolding Poems by Eléna Rivera, published by Princeton University Press on November 8, 2016, is a reprint edition comprising 104 pages in English. This collection features a sequence of eighty-two sonnets that captures the essence of contemporary daily life in New York City. Rivera employs the English sonnet form as a framework to delve into various aspects of life, including observations, conversations, and memories, while also reflecting on the works of earlier poets and the intricate relationship between life and literature.
Readers will find that the poems are structured around formal and syllabic constraints, allowing for an exploration of how form influences content. The collection engages with historical, philosophical, artistic, and literary sources, while remaining rooted in the present moment. The sonnets, attentive to rhythm and sound, build upon one another, much like the scaffolding that surrounds buildings in New York, offering a fresh perspective on the familiar. This edition invites readers to experience the interplay between the past and the present through Rivera’s vivid reflections.
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A remarkable sequence of sonnets that reflect contemporary daily life in New York City
Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly reflecting life in New York City. In this, her third book of poetry, Eléna Rivera uses the English sonnet as a scaffold to explore daily events, observations, conversations, thoughts, words, and memories—and to reflect on the work of earlier poets and the relationship between life and literature.
Guided by formal and syllabic constraints, the poems become in part an exploration of how form affects content and how other poets have approached the sonnet. The poems, which are very attentive to rhythm and sound, are often in conversation with historical, philosophical, artistic, and literary sources. But at the same time they engage directly with the present moment. Like the construction scaffolding that year after year goes up around buildings all over New York, these poems build on one another and change the way we see what was there before.
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