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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
American poets continuum series ; no. 157
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American poets continuum series ; v. 157.
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| Summary |
"Winner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End of Pink is populated by strange characters-Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin-all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for a way to understand childbirth, parenthood, sickness, death, and-of course-joy. Finding myself in a mesmeric orientation, before me appeared Benjamin Franklin, who magnetized his French paramours at dinner parties as an amusing diversion from his most serious studies of electricity and the ethereal fire. I like thinking about how he would have stood on tiptoe to kiss their buzzing lips and everyone would gasp and clap for the blue spark between them. I believe in an honest and forthright manner, a democracy of plain speech, so I have to find a way to explain I don't care to have sex anymore. Kathryn Nuernberger has lived in various corners of Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, and Montana. Her first book, Rag & Bone (Elixir Press, 2011), was a love letter to backwoods junk collectors and all of the abandoned cabins in the foothills to the Ozark Mountains. An unapologetic dilettante, she has received research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and The Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life to research aspects of the history of science and medicine. She currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, teaches at the University of Central Missouri, and serves as the director of Pleiades Press"-- Provided by publisher. |
| 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 |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016032033
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nuernberger, Kathryn. End of pink. First edition. Rochester, NY : BOA Editions Ltd., 2016 9781942683148 (DLC) 2016019092 |
| ISBN |
9781942683155 (electronic book) |
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1942683154 (electronic book) |
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9781942683148 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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