LIVING WITH YOU

by Barbara Blatner

Overview

Written in the first years of the poet's marriage, inspired by a magical yard at their first apartment, the poems in LIVING WITH YOU explore mysteries of beauty and decay, love and sex, ecstasy and temporality. In its use of silence and space, LIVING WITH YOU recalls the work of George Oppen, Robert Duncan, and poets of similar sensibility. Abstract in texture, specific in their music, these images probe the world we see and touch and the world we do not see but sense deeply.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935520375
Publisher:	NYQ Books
Publication date:	03/29/2012
Edition description:	Firsttion ed.
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Barbara Blatner is a poet, playwright, composer and musician. She lives in northern Manhattan with her husband and two cats, and teaches in the English Department at Yeshiva University. LIVING WITH YOU (NYQ Books, 2011) is her second full-length collection of poems. THE STILL POSTIION, a verse memoir of my mother's death, was published by NYQ Books in 2010. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook, The Pope in Space (Intertext Press, 1984). Barbara's verse play No Star Shines Sharper (Baker's Plays, 1991) was produced for radio and aired repeatedly on National Public Radio stations. Her plays have been produced in New York, Boston and Cleveland; her full- length script, Years of Sky, about a biracial couple who witness JFK's assassination, will be produced in 2012 by Scripts Up! She has written musical scores for theatre, including the Boston Shakespeare Company and New Theatre, and songs for the Boston-based fusion group Urban Myth with whom she played keyboards for five years.