| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 69 pages) : illustrations. |
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Poetry |
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polychrome |
| Series |
May Swenson poetry award series ; v. 15
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May Swenson Poetry Award series ; v. 15.
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| Summary |
<DIV> 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." </DIV> |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mossotti, Travis. About the dead. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2011 9780874218268 (DLC) 2011018018 (OCoLC)712117523 |
| ISBN |
9780874218282 (electronic book) |
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0874218284 (electronic book) |
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1283250209 |
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9781283250207 |
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9780874218268 |
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0874218268 |
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9780874218275 |
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0874218276 |
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