Isbn: 9780822967187 - transcript of the disappearance: exact and diminishing (pitt poetry) (8 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lynn Emanuel's sixth collection of poetry is not sequential or straightforward. It has no conventional chronology, no master narrative. Instead, it is a life story, with all the chaos and messiness entailed therein. Transcript of the Disappearance, Exact and Diminishing is a commotion of grief and wit, audacious images, poems, and paragraphs. It explores and centers on the possibilities and limitations of art in the face of disappearances of many kinds, including the disappearance that is most personal--the poet's own. --PLAGUE'S MONOLOGUE I erased the world so nothing can find it, snuffed out the roses, red and hot as the snouts of bombs, repealed the polar ice cap, even that fat oxymoron, the 'industrial park,' has disappeared. And the last few words huddled together, like bees in a hive buzzing and plotting I cut their throats with the scythe of a comma, turned the snout of my pen against them. I saved by erasing the streets and the people--let them be overgrown with absence. I don't care--there is no limit to my appetite, my lust, my zeal for emptiness. But I know you--and you have kept a transcriptof the disappearance.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorLynn Emanuel is the author of Noose and Hook, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly, and most recently, The Nerve of It, which received the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets.