Puhak knows her Tennyson and her William Morris, but she veers away from these sources as readily as she pays tribute to them." - Meridian "Who wouldn't love that title?…Having Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere and others in Baltimore is inspired, unprecedented and indicative of this poet's saucy imagination. In hilariously acid and completely contemporary language, Puhak gives us a Lancelot who bickers at Starbucks, an Arthur suffering from an enlarged prostate, and a Guinevere who finally, fully realizes the consequence of the betrayals she has initiated, along with a few others which we all must face-disloyalty, disappointment, the aging of a once-beautiful body and, worse, the realization that even the strongest passions fade." -Paisley Rekdal "This is a dazzling work-bold, brilliant, and startlingly familiar with Arthurian literature. This is what Shelley Puhak has done with the Arthurian legends in her newest collection. They rip our most familiar characters out of their antiquated context and, by doing so, remind us anew that our heroes and heroines of yore have never been safe, nor their archetypal renderings anodyne. Original poets, however, rewrite the stories entirely with a fresher eye and a sharper tongue. Bow down now, Reader, for this maker means forever, and you're the one in her cross-hairs." -Cate Marvin "Good poets return to myth and legend in order to reenact their gestures, translating rather than adapting these stories, hoping to siphon something of these ancient tales' former resonance and power off for their own work. And juicy gossip, as the old Greek and Roman poets knew well, and made sure to record, will outlast empires and even gods." -from the foreword by Charles Simic "A freakishly brilliant book in its conception, Shelley Puhak's GUINEVERE IN BALTIMORE raises the stakes for American poetry of the twenty-first century. Being a story about marital infidelity, its poems are full of things both intimate and scandalous. GUINEVERE IN BALTIMOREe is masterfully crafted, a veritable feast for any lover of words. Of course, for a language to come alive for the reader, one has to hear the voice of whoever is speaking in the poem, which requires verbal imagination and an exquisite ear for how different types of people talk. The finest poetry, the kind one wants to keep re-reading, mostly comes down to memorable turns of phrase and vivid detail, and that is what one finds here. "What makes GUINEVERE IN BALTIMORE work…is the sheer brilliance of the individual poems. The pair examine love in all of its chemical, biological, political, and technological dimensions, ultimately asking readers to examine our own infidelities to our ideals. Selected by Charles Simic as winner of the eighth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, GUINEVERE IN BALTIMORE comprises a sequence of dramatic monologues in which the infamous lovers Guinevere and Lancelot navigate their doomed affair in our own age of austerity. Audi’s four ring logo representing the four individual automakers of yore.Poetry. Horch had created his own automotive company six years earlier, and this concern - together with Audi, DKW and Wanderer - all decided to merge into the singular company in 1932.įorming Auto Union. Historically, Audi first came into existence in 1910 its name registered by German engineer, August Horch. And is a much sought-after commodity in its own right. Now seen as one of the world’s most luxurious - yet accessible - brands, the Ingolstadt company enjoys a degree of autonomy from VW. Times change however, and Audi has come a very long way in a relatively short space of time, courtesy of its integral involvement with parent company, VW. Audi’s engineers literally rolled the cars down the hill in front of gathered spectators. Although the processes and scant regard for health and safety left a lot to be desired back in the day. Although urban legend would suggest Volvo beat them to it, Audi was in fact the first car maker to crash test their vehicles.
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