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1 online resource. |
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Akron series in poetry
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Akron series in poetry.
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Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I.; As a Debutante I Adjusted My Hatpin; Instructions for Going Unnoticed; [I went to the city, came back with Technicolor]; Lines Written on a Grain of Rice; [I sent my blues away, they came right back]; Sonetto; The Veronica Maneuver; The Cartoonist's Daughter; Insomniac's Nocturne; Lines Written on a Drop of Milk; Domestic Study (I); Saint Veronica Has Something to Say (I); On Symmetry; Instructions for Conchita Cintrón, 1933; [When sunlight becomes an object]; Disambiguation: On Desire; II.; The Quiet Game; III. |
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The Gallery of Unrecoverable ObjectsHaute Couture Grotesque, or Talking About My Generation; As a Child of Twelve, I Buried a Box; Lines Written on the Back of a Tooth; Hello, Goodbye; Ghost Limb; Cento: But I, Being Young and Foolish; I Went and Caught a Falling Leaf; Domestic Study (II); Oh Incognito; And Did It All Go; Our Lady of the Marvelous Wrists; Saint Veronica Has Something to Say (II); After All That, There is This; Now You See It, Now You Don't; In the Drawer of My Wooden Pillow, I Found a Leaf; Notes; Acknowledgments. |
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Jennifer Moore's debut collection takes its title from a bullfighting technique in which the matador draws the bull with his cape; in these poems, however, traditional moves are reconfigured and roles are subverted. In a broader sense, the word "veronica" (from the Latin vera, or "true" and the Greek eikon, or "image") functions as a frame for exploring the nature of visual experience, and underscores a central question: how do we articulate events or emotions that evade clear understanding? In order to do so, the figures here perform all manner of transformations: from vaudeville star to cartoonist's daughter, from patron saint to "Blue-Eyed Torera;" they are soothsayers, apothecaries, curators, often conjuring selves out of thin air. This dilating and "shape-shifting" of perspective becomes a function of identity: "the absorber and the absorbed become one." Indeed, both speaker and listener must be crafted-willed into being-by each other ("Be your own maestro"), and are apparitions until then. Through a flick of the wrist or a trick of the eye, these speakers understand that construction of a self comes only through performance of that self--which performances are often punctuated with a wink, an unswerving gaze, or both at once. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American poetry.
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American poetry. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015049561
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Print version: Moore, Jennifer. Veronica Maneuver. : University of Akron Press, ©2015 9781629220291 |
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9781629220314 (electronic book) |
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1629220310 (electronic book) |
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9781629220321 (electronic book) |
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1629220329 (electronic book) |
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9781629220307 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781629220291 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1629220299 |
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1629220302 |
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