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Temper (2009)

by Beth Bachmann(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0822960400 (ISBN13: 9780822960409)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

review 1: Bachmann's title of her book, Temper, is a perfect example of what you'll find within it. "Temper" we think of first as someone's state of mind, but it also can be defined as "to moderate something." Much of the book is concerned with both temper--as in anger and the violence it inspires, as well as finding some sort of medium. Bachmann's poetry is full of words like "temper," that is, words with multiple meanings, all of which deepen or change the reader's understanding of the poems and the book as a whole.
review 2: Great first book. I love the way the book's structure frames individual poems in the mystery of solving Bachmann's sister's murder: titles like "Setting," "Plot," etc. hold the work together in a whole larger than the sum of the parts. The emotion... moreal give and take, reveal and hide, of the book enacts the 'Temper' of the title, in which metals are heated and cooled and ultimately made stronger. This tension enacted makes for a fantastic piece of contemporary poetry. less

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