Theatrix: Poetry Plays By Terese Svoboda

Theatrix: Poetry Plays Paperback – March 10, 2021 by Terese Svoboda  (Author)

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Anhinga Press (March 10, 2021)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 84 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1934695696
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1934695692
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 0.4 x 8.8 inches

The scenes of poetry in this book make it appear as if you are reading a play, but in verse.  Svoboda is able to balance a theatrical sense as well as a poetical one in each poem to achieve the extraordinary – a book that could read either way.  Her verses are mesmerizing.  From the poem “The Cast”:  “The old comedienne moves her mouth, she does her stretches, her deadpan- / without-so-much-as-a-twitch, and she times it. [It’s all about timing]. Old / means she’s timed a lot [she may have timed out].”  This book is accessible and fresh, a heady combination.

About the Author

A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of 19 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, biography, and translation. Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet appeared in paper in 2018, and Great American Desert, a book of stories, in 2019. Doubleback Books reprinted Treason, her fourth book of poetry, in 2020. She has also been awarded the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation prize for video, the O. Henry Award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three-time winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has had Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Yaddo, McDowell, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.'s Disney Hall in 2005. A native of Nebraska, she now divides her time between a houseboat in Victoria BC and NYC with her husband and a moth-eared papillion named Fred.