Invisible Tender / Edition 3

by Jennifer Clarvoe

Overview

Jennifer Clarvoe's Invisible Tender is the first winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in coordination with Fordham's Poets Out Loud program. Poet J.D. McClatchy, the judge for the 1999 Prize, chose Invisible Tender from among nearly 500 manuscripts entered by poets from around the world. His introduction is included in the volume. The poems collected in Invisible Tender chart the terrains of childhood recollection and adult loss, of meditation and celebration. Intensely lyrical, both employing and altering traditional poetic meters and forms, Clarvoe's poems are rich in philosophical reflection in subjects ranging from art and, popular culture to the elusive languages of the natural world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823220908
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Series:	Poets Out Loud
Edition description:	3
Pages:	73
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jennifer Clarvoe is Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

Editorial Reviews

Clarvoe has a talent for formal verse. A gorgeous piece called ''Private, Offhand Sestina'' highlights her ability to write about emotion with the distance necessary to preclude sentimentality. It's a gift that serves her well -- one of the finest poems in the collection, ''The Anguish,'' closes with a defiant passage of strength and wisdom that any poet would be lucky to approximate...
—New York Times Book Review

Melanie Rehak

...Her work often reads as though it's fueled by an essential force that's barely kept in check. It's this passion more than anything else that binds the poems here.

New York Times Book Review