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Basic Heart
Renee Ashley
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Description for Basic Heart
Paperback. A primer on the emotional topography of the human heart, its complexities and fluctuations, its nuances and metaphors. From tropes grounded in the fantastic landscapes of awareness, of desire and despair, it draws us a map of a world and shows us just how that 'world is turned like a pig on a spit'. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
"Basic Heart" is a primer on the emotional topography of the human heart, its complexities and fluctuations, its nuances and metaphors. From tropes grounded in the fantastic landscapes of awareness, of desire and despair, Ashley draws us a map of a world and shows us just how that 'world is turned like a pig on a spit'. She brings us back to the recognition that we are all ordinary, that sometimes we need saving, and that 'what is saved just might turn beautiful'.
"Basic Heart" is a primer on the emotional topography of the human heart, its complexities and fluctuations, its nuances and metaphors. From tropes grounded in the fantastic landscapes of awareness, of desire and despair, Ashley draws us a map of a world and shows us just how that 'world is turned like a pig on a spit'. She brings us back to the recognition that we are all ordinary, that sometimes we need saving, and that 'what is saved just might turn beautiful'.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas Review Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Huntsville, United States
ISBN
9781933896281
SKU
V9781933896281
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Ref
99-3
About Renee Ashley
RENEE ASHLEY is the author of three volumes of poetry as well as a chapbook and a novel. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a Pushcart Prize. She is on the core faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low-residency Master's of Fine Arts in ... Read more
Reviews for Basic Heart
"... offers us new kinds of songs for our broken-down age...." - Jack Myers, series judge"