Download or read book Temper written by Beth Bachmann and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2009-09-13 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.