Temper

Author/Contributor(s):	Bachmann, Beth
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Date:	08/31/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament. The poems are mercilessly recursive, placing pressure on the lyric as a mode of both the elegiac and the ecstatic. The result is an enforced silence, urgent with grief.