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A Necklace of Bees: Poems (University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series)
Dannye Romine Powell
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Description for A Necklace of Bees: Poems (University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series)
Paperback. Probes the nature of loss - actual and feared. Series: University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 113.
With a quirky poignance, Dannye Romine Powell's third collection probes the nature of loss—loss that's actual and loss that's feared. In these poems, loss takes many guises. With its ferny breath, loss is sometimes the lover who waits in secret on the porch. Sometimes even loss recognizes the feeling of loss and "calls the cops / to say his best friend / went fishing and won't answer his phone." Often, the poet mourns a loss of innocence, as when she learns, after attending the funeral of a friend, that the dead woman's husband has a history of infidelity. There's also ... Read more
With a quirky poignance, Dannye Romine Powell's third collection probes the nature of loss—loss that's actual and loss that's feared. In these poems, loss takes many guises. With its ferny breath, loss is sometimes the lover who waits in secret on the porch. Sometimes even loss recognizes the feeling of loss and "calls the cops / to say his best friend / went fishing and won't answer his phone." Often, the poet mourns a loss of innocence, as when she learns, after attending the funeral of a friend, that the dead woman's husband has a history of infidelity. There's also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series
Condition
New
Weight
119g
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288790
SKU
V9781557288790
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About Dannye Romine Powell
Dannye Romine Powell is the author of two books of poetry, At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home and The Ecstasy of Regret, both published by the University of Arkansas Press, and Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers. The Ecstasy of Regret won the Brockman-Campbell Award and the Oscar Arnold Young Award and was a finalist for the Southeastern Booksellers ... Read more
Reviews for A Necklace of Bees: Poems (University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series)
Dannye Romine Powell's luminous new poems seem places we've all been, made of words we wished we had said: where we take the dead shopping, where Loss is made flesh, and where a son and a garden teach us too much about sacrifice. Bravo!" - Alan Michael Parker, author of Love Song with Motor Vehicles "The poems in A ... Read more