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1 online resource (x, 83 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The Iowa poetry prize
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Iowa poetry prize.
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| Summary |
Massacre of the Innocents is the work of a secular poet who admires the basic texts - the angry qualities of fairytales equally along with the humorous virtues of sacred scriptures. Speaking with the voice of mature accomplishment, Ramke's poems do not struggle for their words but release them from a near-inexhaustible source. As Ramke has said, "Poems are like children and have minds and manners of their own, luckily beyond the control of parents and poets." These poems talk back and they talk to each other. By stripping away the distractions of received meaning from the words he uses, Ramke makes the necessary connection between reader and poem that can freshen meaning - make it new - as is often claimed for poetry but seldom achieved so well as in his work. |
| Contents |
Man without a body -- As if the past -- Practical linguistics -- Tricks -- Thin soup -- More's the pity -- Matters of time -- Never to heaven go -- New geometry and the little blue heron -- Swellings of style, parts of speech -- "The uses of enchantment" -- Bruno Bettelheim -- Like Ulysses -- War crimes -- Elegy as algorithm: seasonal lamentation -- Genius engine -- Future as if -- When culture was popular -- Art. Love. Geology -- Little flowers -- Melting pot -- Further documentation -- Consolations of grammar -- Center for atmospheric research -- Summer as a verb, Nantucket as an island -- An algebra of innocence -- He dreams of a cruise -- In layman's terms -- A tree full of fish. |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. |
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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American poetry.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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20th century American poetry (Online) (OCoLC)43065253 |
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Print version: Ramke, Bin, 1947- Massacre of the innocents. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1995 0877454922 (DLC) 94037407 (OCoLC)31207626 |
| ISBN |
1587291991 (electronic book) |
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9781587291999 (electronic book) |
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0877454922 (paperback) |
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9780877454922 (paperback) |
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