Description
Poetry. "In E. Tracy Grinnell's MUSIC OR FORGETTING the fragile traces of a life are lifted; a figure emerges as landscape; the body, a heathered slope. A view, a vista is offered, open and solitary, identified not by web works of interiors but by wakefulness. Time is marked by the distance of summers rather than a crush of events. The language intimates aspects of drawing, mobile, etude in which color, space, detail are sparingly applied; absence intensifies presence. The poetry obtains a distillation into human memory."—C. D. Wright
"A word turns up, takes a turn with one phrase and another, a tone, an intonation. Almost-repetition there is no. Sense is tested against sound in turns and torques of grammar-and multiples, fruitful. At every turn. 'Not one kind of' music. You won't forget it."—Rosmarie Waldrop
Author Bio
E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of several books of poetry, including HELL FIGURES (Nightboat Books, 2016), PORTRAIT OF A LESSER SUBJECT (Elis Press, 2015), Helen: A Fugue (Belladonna Elder Series #1, 2008), SOME CLEAR SOUVENIR (O Books, 2006), and MUSIC OR FORGETTING (O Books, 2001). Grinnell's poetry has been translated into French, Serbian, and Portuguese. She currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Pratt Institute and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the founding editor and director of Litmus Press.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA