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Misery Prefigured

By J.A. , Rosser

Book information

Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0809390191, 9780809390199
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
255 kB (261163 bytes)
Series
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Pages
88\88
Time added
2019-07-03 22:41:25

Description

In her second collection of poems, J. Allyn Rosser explores the human condition in all its gloriously valiant pathos. Misery Prefigured dwells on our continual reinventions of self and world and the restless dynamic that vibrates between them.Whether contemplating a failed marriage, a visit from God, or a pearl dropped into a bottle of Prell shampoo, Rosser's wry yet impassioned eye looks hard for a habitable and abiding truth. Alternating between deadpan and dead serious, these poems are often darkly funny, exposing the contradictions inherent in every desire. Misery Prefigured is fueled by a cocky, unsentimental determination to make some consolatory sense of what passes for reality. Part Two..............19 Part Three..............35 Part Four..............59

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