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Brave Disguises (Pitt Poetry Series)
Gray Jacobik
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Description for Brave Disguises (Pitt Poetry Series)
Paperback. A poet with an artist's eye, a painter with an ear for language, Gray Jacobik creates poems out of the mundane and extraordinary moments of our lives. Series: Pitt Poetry Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 127.
Winner of the 2001 Associated Writing Programs’ Award in Poetry Selected by Marilyn Chin A poet with an artist’s eye, a painter with an ear for language, Gray Jacobik creates poems out of the mundane and extraordinary moments of our lives. Mirroring the structure of a Pollock painting, elegizing Larry Levis and avocados, reflecting on Johnny Depp’s "terribly surreal" life, embarking upon a seventy-two-line meditation on the color blue, exposing a lover’s—or a mother’s—secrets, Jacobik's poems are mature, elegant, and crackling with energy.
Winner of the 2001 Associated Writing Programs’ Award in Poetry Selected by Marilyn Chin A poet with an artist’s eye, a painter with an ear for language, Gray Jacobik creates poems out of the mundane and extraordinary moments of our lives. Mirroring the structure of a Pollock painting, elegizing Larry Levis and avocados, reflecting on Johnny Depp’s "terribly surreal" life, embarking upon a seventy-two-line meditation on the color blue, exposing a lover’s—or a mother’s—secrets, Jacobik's poems are mature, elegant, and crackling with energy.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pitt Poetry Series
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822957881
SKU
V9780822957881
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About Gray Jacobik
Gray Jacobik, a professor of literature at Eastern Connecticut State University, received the Juniper Prize for her The Double Task and the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize for The Surface of Last Scattering.
Reviews for Brave Disguises (Pitt Poetry Series)
It is very rare that a poet is able to meld the poetry of the body and the poetry of the mind. I believe Jacobik has done so in Brave Disguises, and has done so gracefully. - Marilyn Chin ""At the center of these poems is a writer who is willing to open herself fully to the world's and living's ... Read more