Couldn′t Prove, Had to Promise: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Autor Wyatt Pruntyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2015
In "Crescent Theater, Schenectady, NY," a silent-movie accompanist reads his foreign newspaper after work as he listens, ever the outsider, "to his children using English / For everything they wish." In "Rules," a small girl, told she can't go to the school nurse "every time some bad thing happens," plaintively wonders, "Where do you go?" And in "Making Frankenstein," a boy who has cajoled his parents into letting him see The Curse of Frankenstein wakes to a nightmare. His father bans horror films as "too anatomical"; "What's anatomical?" the boy wonders. Given a book that catalogs diseases, the worst of which come "from intimate contact," he is horrified by his father's explanation of grownup intimacy: "That's how you made your way into this world."
Moving from a wry portrait of a husband--musing on mortality--whose Christmas tie lands in the gravy, to "Reading the Map," which grapples with the cartography of love, to "ad lib," a farewell that redefines farewell, these poems burnish the small triumphs and fears that fill our daily lives with humor and pathos. The book closes with a long, four-part poem, "Nod," which transports readers to a parking lot in July: an asphalt-as-inferno where Cain the cracker, or adversary-as-initiator, the pleuritic voice of disappointment, names the ways inversion makes a lie reliable and works people best as, like a joke or discount price, "It makes you feel you're getting more by giving less." Funny, raw, and colorfully musical, "Nod" plays what teeters, like a tuning fork.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781421417141
ISBN-10: 1421417146
Pagini: 72
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 141 x 215 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press
Seria Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
ISBN-10: 1421417146
Pagini: 72
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 141 x 215 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press
Seria Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
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" Funny, raw, and colorfully musical, "Nod" plays what teeters, like a tuning fork.