Curiosities, The

Brittany Perham

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Brittany Perham’s first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love. These poems make up a cabinet of curiosities because they hold what is fascinating or frightening, beautiful or awesome— a “stomach plumed by syringe,” a “zoo’s lost leopard,” a “forest of high-waisted trees”— up to the eye. In their image-making, the poems place language itself beneath the glass slide of a microscope in order to discern its component structures, its natural patterns. Curiosity here is a way of looking—unsatisfiable, looping back on itself, yielding only further questions. In these uncanny and passionate poems our own lives are made strange to us, and we are wonderstruck.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 30 novembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602352407
• Langue: English

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THE CURIOSITIES BRITTANY PERHAM

Free Verse Edîtîons

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THE CURIOSITIES

Brittany Perham

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