false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179043969m/868590.jpg 868590 2 <p>Cate Marvin uses language the way a gymnast uses her body; she is a formalist who has thoroughly learned the pleasures and gains of abandon. But it is her excursions into wild image and passionate song that win the reader's heart. The heart is central in <i>World's Tallest Disaster</i>, which is essentially a book of love poems-love lost and found, love requited, love abandoned and betrayed. What Cate Marvin has done in her remarkably assured and powerful first collection is to remind us in fresh terms of the news that stays news: that our desire is "Not a sea of longing,// but the brack of wanting what's physical/ to help us forget we are physical."</P><p>"Violently passionate and firmly symmetrical, like tango or the blues, these poems-at first-are about sexual passion. . . . But in the great tradition of love poetry, these poems don't stop with love. They move from eros to imagination. Or they thrash between the two. . . . This is an encouraging book in the context of American poetry's fashions or factions, because it evades categories. [Marvin's] is an urgent as well as an artful voice."-from the Foreword by Robert Pinsky</P> <p><b>Marketing Plans</b>o Author tour in Ohio, Kentucky, and NYC<BR>o Brochure and postcard mailings<BR>o Advertisements in key literary and trade magazines<p><P>Book tour dates including:</B><BR>o Cincinnati<BR>o Louisville <BR>o New York City</P><P><B>Cate Marvin</B> was born in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. from Marlboro College in Vermont, and holds two M.F.A.s: one from the University of Houston in poetry, the other from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction. She has been awarded scholarships to attend both Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as <I>New England Review, The Antioch Review, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review,</I> and <I>Ploughshares,</I> among others. She is lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English at the university there.</P> 1134961 1 8 2001 World's Tallest Disaster total:98|5:30|4:42|3:18|2:8|1:0| 98 388 127 9 868590 1889330612 9781889330617 96 9 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179043969m/868590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/868590.World_s_Tallest_Disaster 3 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:35:03 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:35:35 -0800 2009 868590 1889330612 9781889330617 96 9 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179043969m/868590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/868590.World_s_Tallest_Disaster 4 0 false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 15:50:02 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 16:50:36 -0700 2009 868590 1889330612 9781889330617 96 9 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179043969m/868590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/868590.World_s_Tallest_Disaster 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Mar 20 23:36:25 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 00:00:41 -0700 2008
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