ISBN: 9781496225986 - the laugh we make when we fall (backwaters prize in poetry) (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Susan Firer's The Laugh We Make When We Fall, peonies; snow drops, "with all their survivor ecstasies"; "windy caravans of lilacs"; and "Dali Lama-robed " daylilies act as magnets to attract history-personal and historical-myths, language, facts, love, gratitude, prayers, beauty, and "all the colors of death and sex." Family oddities appear in this collection,as well as Catholic rituals, saints, and ghost poets. Always ghost poets: Whitman, Neruda, Thoreau, and Saint Francis. In these poems, "toads/ pull their finished skins off/ delicately as evening gloves," and in "Birds" you can look into an injured bird's neck and see "everywhere it had ever flown" see "insects, & seeds, & amphibians,/ & even a piece or two of snake." Using list poems, exploded elemental odes, lyrics, and American sonnets, Firer writes her own survivor ecstasies: "I was buried under/deaths: mother's, father's, sisters' deaths wrapped me/ like surgical wrap. And who and where would I be/ when all their gauzy deaths were removed " In poem after poem in this collection, Firer begins to explore and to answer that question. This collection is 'a wild generosity of spirit,' creating an effect that is 'sacramental.'. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextIn Susan Firer&rsquos The Laugh We Make When We Fall, peonies snow drops, &ldquowith all their survivor ecstasies&rdquo &ldquowindy caravans of lilacs&rdquo and &ldquoDali Lama-robed &ldquo daylilies act as ma.