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Otherwise Unseeable
Betsy Scholl
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Paperback. Winner of the 2014 Four Lakes Poetry Prize These poems enact the kinds of arguments we have with ourselvesbetween control and relinquishment, grief and ecstasy, regret and acceptance, faith and skepticismgrounded in the music of experience." Series: Four Lakes Poetry Series. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 8. Weight in Grams: 172.
Winner of the 2014 Four Lakes Poetry Prize.
What if ruin is a good thing? What if each day is built on the ruin of the one before? What if all our attempts to avoid ruin only make us bitter or closed off from what’s around us? What if only by exploring our ruins do we become human?
The poems in Otherwise Unseeable examine such questions. It is a poetry full of music and surprise, in voices that are personal, invented, and historical, sometimes belonging to the poet and sometimes to others. Betsy Sholl probes what there is ... Read more
Winner of the 2014 Four Lakes Poetry Prize.
What if ruin is a good thing? What if each day is built on the ruin of the one before? What if all our attempts to avoid ruin only make us bitter or closed off from what’s around us? What if only by exploring our ruins do we become human?
The poems in Otherwise Unseeable examine such questions. It is a poetry full of music and surprise, in voices that are personal, invented, and historical, sometimes belonging to the poet and sometimes to others. Betsy Sholl probes what there is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
90
Condition
New
Series
Four Lakes Poetry Series
Number of Pages
90
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299299347
SKU
V9780299299347
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About Betsy Scholl
Betsy Sholl is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Late Psalm and Don’t Explain, 1997 winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. A former poet laureate of Maine, Sholl teaches at the University of Southern Maine, USA and in the MFA Program of Vermont College, USA.
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