Between The Crackups - Brossura

Rebecca Lehmann

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1844718581 ISBN 13: 9781844718580

Casa editrice: New Publisher, 2021

Riassunto

Between the Crackups is a frolicking romp through the abandoned factories, overcrowded highways, and forgotten rural landscapes of America. This provocatively voiced book explores themes of sexuality, gender, class, pop-culture, and aesthetics. Some of these poems are sonnets, some are multi-voiced elegies, others are meditations on loss. From the balmy swamps of Florida, to the snowed-in forests of northern Wisconsin, and back again, Rebecca Lehmann captures a feeling of cultural unease and personal panic in tight, smartly worded poems that banter casually with the tropes, traditions, and authors of the Western poetic canon. In the book, the Old English poem "The Dream of the Rood" is re-imagined as a two-part, modern-day fever dream, the classic pastoral landscape morphs into an apple orchard occupied by off-putting children, and the entire season of autumn goes missing. Part serious meditation and part carnival fun house, these poems will make the reader chortle, chuckle, snort, and maybe even blush.

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Recensione:

These poems read like just-fashioned old-fashioned letters--not e-mails, not texts, not tweets--from one's neglected, slightly pissed-off subterranean self.  They are bold, agitated, self- and other-mocking, artfully raw, nonchalantly inventive, infused with necessity, and altogether stunning.

Author: Mark Levine, author of Enola Gay and The Wilds

L'autore:

Rebecca Lehmann lives with her husband in Wisconsin, USA. Her poems have been published in Tin House, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Best New Poets 2010, and other journals and magazines.

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• Editore: New Publisher
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1844718581
• ISBN 13: 9781844718580
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 80