Visceral and brimming with vitality, the poems in Premonitions reverberate with the voice of a woman on a secluded farm, confronting her emotional and physical isolation. Drawing on her own experience as a daughter of a third-generation fruit farmer, Elizabeth Schmuhl gives readers a fresh and powerful perspective on what it means to be alive. Layering one upon another, the poems blur boundaries and create a volatile state out of which the remarkable and unexpected occur. Embracing chaos, change, and unpredictability, these poems are energetically charged and infused with succinct, imagistic language. They reach beyond the constraints assigned to the female form and examine a place where time, the body, sexuality, and the natural world are not fixed. At times surreal, at others painfully real, the poems in Premonitions are the expression of a human life that merges and melds with the world around it, acting and reacting, loving and despairing, disintegrating and rebuilding. The speaker travels fluidly between strata of the natural world and her own body. Adding to the complexity of her poems, Schmuhl creates additional layers of meaning as the poems and their titles relate to the author's synesthesia, a sensory phenomenon through which letters and numbers are experienced as colors and emotions. Premonitions will turn the reader inward, encouraging the examination of the small details of life and a growing acceptance of the perpetual turmoil and uncertainty of existence despite our own desire to find a firm footing. This volume will be prized by lovers of contemporary poetry and literature alike.

Premonitions (Made in Michigan Writer Series)

Literature & Fiction

Schmuhl, Elizabeth

Poetry

Wayne State University Press

Sequel: A Handbook for the Critical Analysis of Literature is a must-have companion to any student interested in the complexities of literature and its analysis. Literature is introduced in three parts: poetry, fiction, and drama. With an understanding of literature's basic forms, students are prepared for the analytical chapters: contextual, formalist, psychological, archetypal, and feminist analyses. A final chapter takes students step-by-step through the process of writing a literary analysis essay. With a text and appendix full of classic and contemporary poetry and prose, Sequel not only works as a teaching guide, but as a reading resource.

Sequel A Handbook for the Critical Analysis of Literature

Guches, Richard C.

T.H. Peek, Publisher

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