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Strange Valentine

By A. Loudermilk

Book information

Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780809388547, 9780809326617
LCC
PS3612
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
471 kB (482633 bytes)
Series
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
102\102
Time added
2023-08-10 10:07:09
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Description

A. Loudermilk utilizes confessional, persona, and third-person poems throughout this intimate yet socially conscious first collection. Strange Valentine is an indictment of love, fixating on the paranoid relationship between body and state, on the dangerous relationship between family history and sexual history, and on the elusive relationship between gender and sexuality--specifically as experienced in the working-class towns of the southernmost Midwest. Riding highly crafted rhythms in sound, line, and invented form, Loudermilk's multivoiced storytelling resounds with the characters and heartbreaks of the heartland.

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