{"product_id":"the-ruined-elegance-9780691167503","title":"The Ruined Elegance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSze-Lorrain offers a ... vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a 'ruined elegance.' Through an intercultural journey that traces lives, encounters, exiles, and memories from France, America, and Asia, the poet explores a rich array of historical and literary allusions to European masters, Asian sources, and American influences--Dust jacket flap.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry One of Library Journal's Best Books 2015: Poetry \"The poems in Fiona Sze-Lorrain's The Ruined Elegance resonate with a voice that is both fragile and strong, physical and metaphysical, ancient and contemporary. As such, the collection serves as a sounding board for the powerful silence that echoes through language over the ages and across the continents. A master of musicality and enlightening allusions, Sze-Lorrain has written an English-language collection that is both accessible to a wide audience and rewarding to the closest of readers.\"--Christina Cook, The Rumpus \"Highly crafted and interesting... Sze-Lorrain does a compelling job of touching on new topics on each page. There is a lot of variation in style and the poems are relatively short with concise language, which makes this a fluid, informative, albeit sometimes difficult, read.\"--Brenna Marcuccilli, Pamplemousse \"[Fiona Sze-Lorrain], who has lived in Europe, America and Asia, draws from every aspect of her broad perspective in this poetry collection. Lyricism and wisdom intertwine as she urges acute observation rather than an impossible search for exact truth: 'Believe me, \/ answers are small.'\"--Aiyanna K. White, Columbia College Today \"Sze-Lorrain's new book, a sharp requiem of buried emotionalism, fuses her serious imagination with an especially musically charged mind.\"--David Biespiel, American Poetry Review \"Sze-Lorrain's new book of poems marks a fresh refinement in her art.\"--Michael Oliver, Antigonish Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI WRONG EPIC  Given Silence 3  Towering 4  I Wait for the Ruined Elegance 5  Back from the Aegean Sea 6  In the Thick of It 7  Ionian Supper 9  Partita, but Nothing to Do with Bach 10  Few Days before Christmas 13  II IN A GODLESS TIME  Beginning 17  Spring Massacre 18  Mausoleum 19  Backstage 20  Day Seven 21  Center of a Journey 22  Am I What the Lake Gave Me 23  Meditation 24  Dusty Citadel 25  III THE BOOK, A SIMPLER GRAVE  To Whom It May Concern 29  Granted Asylum 31  Against Prologue 32  To Survive When It Must 33  Midnight Almanac 34  Yield, Please 36  Anna Akhmatova, or the Thoughts She Didn't Write 37  An Uprising Committed to Longhand 38  Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonioz took more than fifty years before writing Ravensbruck down in La Traversee de la nuit 39  Chosen by the Narrator 40  Cantabile (ma stonato) 41  IV CAUGHT IN DEFIANCE  Transparent 45  Ink Painting from the Joseon Dynasty 46  What's Left of a Sijo 47  Chiaroscuro, 2 a.m. 48  Bonnard's Naked Wife Leaving the Bathtub 49  La Chambre d'ecoute 51  Three Moves, Clockwise 52  Om dhrung svaha 54  My Hiroshige 55  Peintre 56  Jardins sous la pluie 57  Notes 59  Acknowledgments 61","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403820179799,"sku":"9780691167503","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691167503.jpg?v=1730484639","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ruined-elegance-9780691167503","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}