Publication

2002 - University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

16,750 words, Guess

Page Count

67 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3561.A6993 D36 2002

Description

The subject matter of these poems is ordinary: motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, the Midwest. But in addressing these topics, Laura Kasischke finds and reveals the strangeness of the most common traditions and dilemmas. These are poems that work to fuse reality and dream, life and death, logic and illogic. Kasischke precisely renders the experience we have of ourselves as physical and time-bound beings existing in a psychological and spiritual realm that seems to have no barriers or laws. The poems in this collection are both narrative and lyric, grounded in reality but also surreal, at once fully realized and merely hinting at what might be.

Description

"The subject matter of these poems is ordinary: motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, the Midwest. But in addressing these topics, [author] finds and reveals the strangeness of the most common traditions and dilemmas."--Back cover.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Juniper Prize for Poetry

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