Awakening

Résumé du livre

With his collection Awakening, Begiebing tries to elude certain attributes in contemporary poetry often found in the most fashionable and esteemed publications. Joan Didion once described literary "unfashionableness [as] the final refusal to sail with the prevailing winds." Begiebing hopes this book avoids the tedious drone of prosaic intimacies and bathos, gnomic opacities, mechanical tricks and gimmicks of lineation at the expense of the natural rhythms of the human voice, and the general anxiety over language that elevates emotional or spiritual experience. Readers will have to determine for themselves to what extent he has succeeded in his efforts. He is grateful for those periodical editors who over the years have risked publishing his poems. Awakening is available through The Troy Book Makers (www.shoptbmbooks.com), Amazon, or his Authors Guild website (www.begiebing.com) where personally inscribed editions are available. Robert Begiebing is Professor of English Emeritus at Southern New Hampshire University, where he served as the founding director of the MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction. He is the author of ten books, including fiction, criticism, memoir, and collected journalism. His fiction has been supported by the NH Council on the Arts, the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction, and by a Wallace Foundation Research Fellowship. In 2023, he received the Robert F. Lucid Award for criticism. Some of his poems published in periodicals between 1980 and 2025 appear in this collection.