UID:
almafu_9959391766002883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780814705490
Content:
Human Nature explores, both seductively and horrificly, the redemptive possibilities found in an American girlhood gone wrong. Every one of Anderson's poems tells a story-dangerous, sensuous, sometimes crazy, sometimes sacred tales that take us into the heartbreaking reality and strangeness of a little girl who grew up the woman of the house; at once drink-maker, showpiece, secret-keeper, and object of lust. The terrain of incest and violence sets itself out on the page so subtely and plainly that the poems become mere containers for these extremes, a kind of prayer. Where formal grace might seem impossible, Anderson sings. And this is why the book -with all its darkness and danger-is, in the end, an affirmative one. The poems rise out of childhood's sorrows into a womanhood filled with the past, hell-bent on the future, and ready for a fight. In haunting, elegant verse, Anderson enters into the truth of experience. Through it all, the poems come to embrace those universal illuminations that arise out of--or even because of--suffering.
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Frontmatter --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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CONTENTS --
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THE SPLIT --
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THE GOOD CHRISTIAN --
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LICKING WOUNDS --
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THE MARK --
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WHAT THE NIGHT IS LIKE --
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ANSWERS --
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THE SUICIDE YEAR --
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GIRL CADAVER --
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THE TEST --
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LOOKING FOR NICOLE --
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SIBLING RIVALRY --
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LITTLE GIRL CADAVER --
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PLAYING DEAD --
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DEFENSE --
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BLUE-BLACKOUT --
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NEW JAPAN --
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COMMUNION --
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GRIEF --
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TO THE WOLVES --
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ESCAPE --
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CEREMONY OF LIGHT --
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CONVICTION --
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THE FIGHT --
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RETURN --
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HUMAN NATURE
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.18574/9780814705490
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814705490
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814705490
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