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Mortal Trash: Poems

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Product Code: 9780393354348
ISBN13: 9780393354348
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ôKim AddonizioÆs voice lifts from the page, alive and bitingùunleashing wit with a ruthless observation.öùSan Francisco Book Review Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called ôOver the Bright and Darkened Lands,ö canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. ôExcept Thou Ravish Me,ö reimagines John DonneÆs famous ôBatter my heart, Three-personÆd Godö as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears ôa swarm of objects that call without being answeredö: hospital crash carts, lawn gnomes, Evian bottles, wind-up Christmas creches, edible panties, cracked mirrors. Whether comic, elegiac, or ironic, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth. From ôScrapbookö: We believe in the one-ton rose and the displaced toilet equally. Our blues assume you understand not much, and try to be alive, just as we do, and that it may be helpful to hold the hand of someone as lost as you.

Author: Kim Addonizio
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: Aug 01, 2017
Number of Pages: 112 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback/Poetry
ISBN-10: 0393354342
ISBN-13: 9780393354348

Mortal Trash: Poems

$15.95
$14.59
Sale 9%
 
ôKim AddonizioÆs voice lifts from the page, alive and bitingùunleashing wit with a ruthless observation.öùSan Francisco Book Review Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called ôOver the Bright and Darkened Lands,ö canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. ôExcept Thou Ravish Me,ö reimagines John DonneÆs famous ôBatter my heart, Three-personÆd Godö as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears ôa swarm of objects that call without being answeredö: hospital crash carts, lawn gnomes, Evian bottles, wind-up Christmas creches, edible panties, cracked mirrors. Whether comic, elegiac, or ironic, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth. From ôScrapbookö: We believe in the one-ton rose and the displaced toilet equally. Our blues assume you understand not much, and try to be alive, just as we do, and that it may be helpful to hold the hand of someone as lost as you.

Author: Kim Addonizio
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: Aug 01, 2017
Number of Pages: 112 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback/Poetry
ISBN-10: 0393354342
ISBN-13: 9780393354348
 

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