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On tact, & the made up world

By Michele , Glazer

Book information

Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Year
2010
ISBN
1-58729-908-9, 978-1-58729-908-7, 9781587299414, 1587299410
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
871 kB (892282 bytes)
Series
Kuhl House poets
Edition
1
Pages
64\81
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American poetry -- 21st century. American poetry.

Description

Michele Glazer’s poems take on questions of being and value, exploring not just what is, but how it is. The poems trouble borders—between self and other, old and young, sick and well, stranger and intimate; between physical states in processes of decay; and between line and phrase, sentence and interruption, prose and poem, resisting the desire for something irrefutable with an abiding skepticism.        The poems are drawn to missteps in perception and in language, those fractures that promise to crack open a surface to yield some other, greater meaning:  “What is looked at is changed / what is looked for is gone.” From this collision of passion and severity come poems that are strange and darkly beautiful.

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