Like a sea
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Iowa City
University of Iowa Press
©2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | Iowa poetry prize
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| Beschreibung: | "Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize"--Cover (p. 2) One. Each H (I) -- Of deadish New England towns sups the incandescence -- Each H (II) -- North meadows -- Each H (III) -- Quotes from the Hartford poems -- Each H (IV) -- Touches the helicopter -- Each H(V) -- A discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time -- The curtains are -- Two. Like an evening -- Three. Each H (VI) -- Pass-pass, or all my pulses -- Archipelago this, archipelago that -- A uselessness of amadons -- Each H (VII) -- Uncomfortable hand -- Mum, wag -- North of Providence -- Photography doesn't exist -- Each H (VIII) -- Goodnight lung -- The barber's fingers move October -- Each H (IX) -- Each H (X) -- Four. Each H (XI) -- Five. What was drained is flooded and after comes -- A mountain is -- Fresh warm -- A clean shirt -- Foghorns -- My Hummel is self-propelled artillery -- Nine at nine -- The greenness of grass is a positive quality -- Cognitive burr ¡¡ Drawing equally from Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, John Berryman, and Robert Frost, Samuel Amadon & rsquo;s award-winning Like a Sea is a collection of poems where personality is foregrounded and speech is both bizarre and familiar. Central to this weirdly talky work is & ldquo;Each H, & rdquo; a sequence of eleven monologues and dialogues wherein an unknown number of speakers examine their collective and singular identities while simultaneously distorting them. From a sequence of pared-down sonnets to a more traditional lyric to a procedural collage inspired by J.D. Salinger, Ezra Poun |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (85 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1587299259 9781587299254 |