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1 online resource (xi, 69 pages) : illustrations |
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May Swenson poetry award series ; v. 15 |
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May Swenson Poetry Award series ; v. 15.
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Foreword; Decampment; One: Country of Forgotten Languages; Two: About the Dead; Three: As Broken in the End; Acknowledgments; About the Author; The May Swenson Poetry Award |
| Summary |
Travis Mossotti writes with humor, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: "ask him to put into words what that sinking is, / that shudder in his chest, as he notices / the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth." But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic portraits of hard-used saints. His vision is clear, as clear as the memory of how scarecrows in the rearview, "each of them, stuffed / into a body they didn't choose, resembled / your own plight." His poetry embraces unsanctimonious life with all its wonder, its levity, and clumsiness. About the Dead is an accomplished collection by a writer in control of a wide range of experience, and it speaks to the heart of any reader willing to catch his "drift, and ride it like the billowed / end of some cockamamie parachute all the way / back to the soft, dysfunctional, waiting earth." |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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FICTION -- General.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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Lyrik.
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Amerikanisches Englisch.
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poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780874218282 |
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0874218284 |
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1283250209 |
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9781283250207 |
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9786613250209 |
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6613250201 |
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0874218268 |
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9780874218268 |
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