A collection of poems that have a variety of themes, from the shifting landscapes of London, Paris, and America. These places are used to align the interior and exterior mirrors as they inspect the conjunction between fate and folly, and misapprehension and mistake.
A collection of poems that have a variety of themes, from the shifting landscapes of London, Paris, and America. These places are used to align the in...
To err is to wander, and the speaker of Maureen Bloomfield's Error and Angels wakes to find that she has strayed, like Dante's traveler, from the path whose end is light. Voices from her Catholic school days, figures from the Judaeo-Christian mythos, and fragments from the history of art inform her ironic, iconic quest. Invoking Iphigenia, Sarah, Mary, Magdalen, Giuliana, and others, she questions the confluences, in women's lives, between renunciation and fertility, beauty and its abnegation-acts and attributes whose ramifications imply a provisional, deleterious kind of power. Bloomfield...
To err is to wander, and the speaker of Maureen Bloomfield's Error and Angels wakes to find that she has strayed, like Dante's traveler, from the path...
