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The Mansion of Happiness: Poems (The VQR Poetry Ser.)
Robin Ekiss
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Description for The Mansion of Happiness: Poems (The VQR Poetry Ser.)
Paperback. Created in 1843 by the daughter of a clergyman, "The Mansion of Happiness" was one of the first children's board games published in America. Examining the history of toys and the broader implications of invention and self-identity, this book presents personal and cultural myths about mortality and memory. Series: VQR Poetry Series. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Robin Ekiss's meditations on memory and mortality are a canary in the coal mine of imagination. With disembodied dolls, dank Parisian catacombs, the gilded interior of a Fabergé egg, and the unfathomable edge of Niagara Falls as the dominion of these poems, reading Ekiss's work is like peering into the perfectly still world of a diorama or daguerreotype: an experience both uncanny and uncompromising.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
VQR Poetry Series
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820334080
SKU
V9780820334080
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Ref
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About Robin Ekiss
ROBIN EKISS has received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for Emerging Women Writers. Her poems have appeared widely, in the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco, California.
Reviews for The Mansion of Happiness: Poems (The VQR Poetry Ser.)
Up from the 'dark shaft of regret,' out from the cage of 'love and rage/whose bars are meant to be broken' come the stirring, smart-as-a-whip poems of Robin Ekiss, poems that turn memory and the strange, not uncomforting burden of it up to the light of reason—and to an acknowledgment of reason's limits—poems that argue not for 'the beautiful face ... Read more