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Deeply political and deeply personal Stain in Aruba is a starting debut Puhak recreates the past in shocking and vibrant detail. This collection takes on the sweeping breadth of history by delving deeply into specific moments specific voices that resonate and haunt. The movement between wars is so deft that time blurs and what remains is exquisite sorrow and strange joy Puhak has me hooked. This is a poet to keep your eye on!---Julianna Baggott, author of the Madam and Lizzie Borden in Love
Shelley Puhak's stunning first book of poems is not so much a voyage but a zigzagging from one strange and fascinating port to another Hitler's lovers lady laudanum drinkers, a high-school Proteus, gypsies, Raphael's portrait of Pope Leo X, a Polish refugee who triples her weight after marriage and a cemetery of life stories. And throughout it all is Stalin not the historical character but the everyday Stalin who dances with his aunts blackmails Lenin's widow even pens a poem Stalin haunts this collection a simster guardian angel and one we must all acknowledge when we are too ambitious or too full of our selves or have lost even if only temporanly our gift for kindness and generosity and love Let the zigzagging begin---John Surowiecki, author of The Hat City after Men Stopped Wearing Hats
Shelley Puhak's Stalin in Aruba recalls Philip Sidney's dictum that the best of the historian is subject to the poet, for whatsoever action or faction Whatsoever counse policy or war stratagem the historian is bound to recite that may the poet make his own beautifying it. In a language surprisingly intimate sometimes downright heartbreaking these poems expose the subtle dynamics not only of joseph Stain's netarious private world---in which women are as easily erased as adulated---but of Nazi Germany American suburbia, post-Communist Eastern Europe even Lady Laudanum Drinkers of the nineteenth century. Simplicity and clarity always obfuscate actions become ideas we only squint at, writes Puhak in this collection's remarkable title poem Yet in lucid poems sometimes impassioned as dramatic monologues sometimes measured by the poet's own equanimity, Puhak stirs life into some of history's unseen participants---as her music crackles like sneakers/ on leaves and her imagery shimmers like bleached teeth and winking diamond rings/ [that] blur together---simply dazzing!---John Gery, author of Gallery of Ghosts and Davenport's Version
Shelley Puhak's stunning first book of poems is not so much a voyage but a zigzagging from one strange and fascinating port to another Hitler's lovers lady laudanum drinkers, a high-school Proteus, gypsies, Raphael's portrait of Pope Leo X, a Polish refugee who triples her weight after marriage and a cemetery of life stories. And throughout it all is Stalin not the historical character but the everyday Stalin who dances with his aunts blackmails Lenin's widow even pens a poem Stalin haunts this collection a simster guardian angel and one we must all acknowledge when we are too ambitious or too full of our selves or have lost even if only temporanly our gift for kindness and generosity and love Let the zigzagging begin---John Surowiecki, author of The Hat City after Men Stopped Wearing Hats
Shelley Puhak's Stalin in Aruba recalls Philip Sidney's dictum that the best of the historian is subject to the poet, for whatsoever action or faction Whatsoever counse policy or war stratagem the historian is bound to recite that may the poet make his own beautifying it. In a language surprisingly intimate sometimes downright heartbreaking these poems expose the subtle dynamics not only of joseph Stain's netarious private world---in which women are as easily erased as adulated---but of Nazi Germany American suburbia, post-Communist Eastern Europe even Lady Laudanum Drinkers of the nineteenth century. Simplicity and clarity always obfuscate actions become ideas we only squint at, writes Puhak in this collection's remarkable title poem Yet in lucid poems sometimes impassioned as dramatic monologues sometimes measured by the poet's own equanimity, Puhak stirs life into some of history's unseen participants---as her music crackles like sneakers/ on leaves and her imagery shimmers like bleached teeth and winking diamond rings/ [that] blur together---simply dazzing!---John Gery, author of Gallery of Ghosts and Davenport's Version
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Shelley Puhak lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Stalin in Aruba is her first book. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, New Delta Review, New South, Third Coast, and other journals. Author City of Residence: Baltimore, Maryland
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Book by Puhak Shelley
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- EditoreBlack Lawrence Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2010
- ISBN 10 0615319300
- ISBN 13 9780615319308
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine76
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