Candy Necklace
Candy Necklace by Calvin Bedient, published by Wesleyan University Press on April 14, 1997, is a collection of poetry that introduces a distinctive voice in American literature. This first edition comprises 91 pages and is presented in English. The poems delve into the complexities of human experience, revealing the underlying violence present in acts of union and creation, while also highlighting the role of poetry as a potential redemptive language.
Readers will encounter a range of emotional landscapes, including themes of family, love, and profound loss. Bedient’s work is characterized by its intimacy and originality, offering intricate and majestic reflections on both public and private brutality. This collection invites exploration of the tensions inherent in language and experience, making it a significant contribution to contemporary poetry.
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The brutality of both public and private experience finds reckoning in these intricate and majestic new poems.
Candy Necklace ushers an intense new voice onto the field of American poetry. Lush and turbulent, the poems collected here expose the violence underlying all acts of union and creation, a violence for which poetry might be a redemptive language but in which language itself is always implicated. Cal Bedient explores a wide range of familiar emotional landscapes — including the constellation of the family, love, and profound lossãand his work is always deeply intimate and verbally original. The brutality of both public and private experience finds reckoning in these intricate and majestic new poems.
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