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Author Rosser, J. Allyn (Jill Allyn), 1957-

Title Misery prefigured / J. Allyn Rosser
Published Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 75 pages)
Series Crab Orchard award series in poetry
Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
Contents Sole Blessing -- Square Dance, Fourth Grade -- Resurfaced -- Voodoo That You Do -- Quest of the Prell -- Deep Pond at Dusk in Heavy Rain Against Pines -- The Sum Contradiction of Our Shades -- Composite -- Renouncing the Tower -- Coming Your Way -- Song -- Suburban Report -- Eschatology of the Lexicon -- Decreator -- Much Later -- You Are Here -- Patience Is a Virtue -- Phase 3: Final Interview, a Few Last Questions -- Reading at the Y -- Heart to India -- Second Story, Old Snow -- Rods and R. -- Missing Person -- The Next Stop Stopping -- Lover Release Agreement -- Late Elvis -- Beckett Dead Imagine -- Buffalo Bayou -- Password -- Delayed Response -- The Cry -- North Jersey Farmland, Vile Mood -- Before the Sickness Is Official -- Realism -- Late Letter -- Raven -- Sugar Dada -- Sea and Rain -- The Brain of the World
Summary In her second collection of poems, J. Allyn Rosser explores the human condition in all its gloriously valiant pathos. Misery Prefigured dwells on our continual reinventions of self and world and the restless dynamic that vibrates between them. Whether contemplating a failed marriage, a visit from God, or a pearl dropped into a bottle of Prell shampoo, Rosser's wry yet impassioned eye looks hard for a habitable and abiding truth. Alternating between deadpan and dead serious, these poems are often darkly funny, exposing the contradictions inherent in every desire. Misery P
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Subject American poetry -- 20th century.
FICTION -- General.
American poetry
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780809390199
0809390191