Fidelity: Poems
By Grace Paley
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Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed Fidelity, a wise and poignant book of poems.
Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont, the poems are sober and playful, experimenting with form while remaining eminently readable. They explore the beginnings and ends of relationships, the ties that bind siblings, the workings of dreams, the surreal strangeness of the aging body—all imbued with her unique perspective and voice. Mournful and nostalgic, but also ruefully funny and full of love, Fidelity is Grace Paley's passionate and haunting elegy for the life she was leaving behind.
Grace Paley
Grace Paley (Nueva York, 1922 - Vermont, 2007) vivió entre dos culturas: la de sus padres, inmigrantes judíos rusos, y la de la gente de la calle, que le proporcionaba el material para sus escritos. Su obra es breve, pero la situó en un destacadísimo lugar entre los escritores norteamericanos. Además de sus tres excepcionales libros de cuentos, Paley es autora de tres libros de poesía, una miscelánea de obras en verso y prosa y una colección de artículos, reportajes y conferencias. Gran parte de su tiempo lo dedicó a la política: durante toda su vida participó en los movimientos feministas y pacifistas. Directora de diversos seminarios y talleres, enseñó en varias universidades. Recibió distinciones como el Premio Vermont a la Excelencia en las Artes de 1993, el Premio de Cuentos REA de 1992 y el Premio Edith Wharton de 1989. En 1989 el gobernador Mario Cuomo la proclamó primera Escritora Oficial del Estado de Nueva York. Fotografía © gentl & hyers / edgereps.com
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Published when the author was eighty-four, this collection reflects, in part, the author's reflections on that period in her life. The author's style involves all lower case with the exception of the word "I." Spaces, rather than punctuation, mark pauses. The author's style does not resonate well with me, although I appreciated some of the poems. The author's atheism manifested itself in one poem in the collection. I prefer Mary Oliver's poetry.