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Designed for Flight: Poems (Triquarterly Books)
Gregory Fraser
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Description for Designed for Flight: Poems (Triquarterly Books)
Paperback. Series: Triquarterly Books. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
Designed for Flight both continues and enlarges the exploration of the rhythms of our emotional lives undertaken in Gregory Fraser's first two collections. A master of metaphor, Fraser works magic within tightly controlled forms, loading lines with surprising juxtapositions and changes of direction. Taken together, the poems trace the sometimes instant, sometimes decades-long movement from incomprehensible loss and grief to rueful reflection and, if we're lucky, uneasy accommodation. Casting a sharply observant eye on past selves, always steering clear of simple sentiment, the speaker in this collection looks back with bitter irony and forgiveness in equal measure. Against the fears ... Read more
Designed for Flight both continues and enlarges the exploration of the rhythms of our emotional lives undertaken in Gregory Fraser's first two collections. A master of metaphor, Fraser works magic within tightly controlled forms, loading lines with surprising juxtapositions and changes of direction. Taken together, the poems trace the sometimes instant, sometimes decades-long movement from incomprehensible loss and grief to rueful reflection and, if we're lucky, uneasy accommodation. Casting a sharply observant eye on past selves, always steering clear of simple sentiment, the speaker in this collection looks back with bitter irony and forgiveness in equal measure. Against the fears ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Triquarterly
Condition
New
Series
Triquarterly Books
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810152434
SKU
V9780810152434
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99-15
About Gregory Fraser
Gregory Fraser, a professor in the Department of English at the University Of West Georgia, is the author of two previous poetry collections, Answering the Ruins (North-western, 2009) and Strange Pieta (2003). He is also the co-author, with Chad Davidson, of the textbooks Writing Poetry (2009) and Analyse Anything (2012).
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