Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 69 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0874218268
,
0874218276
,
0874218284
,
1283250209
,
9780874218268
,
9780874218275
,
9780874218282
,
9781283250207
Series Statement:
May Swenson poetry award series v. 15
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mossotti, Travis About the dead Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2011
Language:
English
URL:
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