Human Nature / / Alice Anderson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Anderson, Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONTENTS --; I. --; THE SPLIT --; THE GOOD CHRISTIAN --; LICKING WOUNDS --; THE MARK --; WHAT THE NIGHT IS LIKE --; II. --; ANSWERS --; THE SUICIDE YEAR --; GIRL CADAVER --; THE TEST --; LOOKING FOR NICOLE --; III. --; SIBLING RIVALRY --; LITTLE GIRL CADAVER --; PLAYING DEAD --; DEFENSE --; BLUE-BLACKOUT --; IV. --; NEW JAPAN --; COMMUNION --; GRIEF --; TO THE WOLVES --; ESCAPE --; V. --; CEREMONY OF LIGHT --; CONVICTION --; THE FIGHT --; RETURN --; HUMAN NATURE
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814705490; 9783110716924
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alice Anderson.

Human Nature explores, both seductively and horrificly, the redemptive possibilities found in an American girlhood gone wrong. Every one of Anderson's poems tells a story-dangerous, sensuous, sometimes crazy, sometimes sacred tales that take us into the heartbreaking reality and strangeness of a little girl who grew up the woman of the house; at once drink-maker, showpiece, secret-keeper, and object of lust. The terrain of incest and violence sets itself out on the page so subtely and plainly that the poems become mere containers for these extremes, a kind of prayer. Where formal grace might seem impossible, Anderson sings. And this is why the book -with all its darkness and danger-is, in the end, an affirmative one. The poems rise out of childhood's sorrows into a womanhood filled with the past, hell-bent on the future, and ready for a fight. In haunting, elegant verse, Anderson enters into the truth of experience. Through it all, the poems come to embrace those universal illuminations that arise out of--or even because of--suffering.