Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament. The poems are mercilessly recursive, placing pressure on the lyric as a mode of both the elegiac and the ecstatic. The result is an enforced silence, urgent with grief.
| ISBN: | 9780822960409 |
| Publication date: | 31st August 2009 |
| Author: | Beth Bachmann |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 80 pages |
| Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |