| Author/Contributor(s): | Rhodes, Martha |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Date: | 02/13/2017 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
"The aim of poetry (and the higher kind of thriller) is to be unexpected and memorable. So a poem about death might treat it in a way that combines the bizarre and the banal: the Other Side as some kind of institution--a creepy hospital, an officious hotel or retirement home. Martha Rhodes takes such an approach in 'Ambassadors to the Dead, ' from her abrupt, unsettling, artfully distorted, indelible new book Mother Quiet. Blending the matter-of-fact with the surreal, as a way of comprehending the stunning, final reality, Rhodes is an inheritor of Emily Dickinson's many poems on the same subject."
--Robert Pinsky, Washington Post