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Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Professor Oliver de La Paz
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Description for Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Paperback. A collection which examines the larger concepts of salvation and temptation in a world of blossoming strife, includes a series of aubades - dramatic poems culminating with the separation of lovers at dawn. Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 141.
Furious Lullaby is both a celebration of and a eulogy to the body in the twenty-first century. The collection, which examines the larger concepts of salvation and temptation in a world of blossoming strife, includes a series of aubades - dramatic poems culminating with the separation of lovers at dawn. The lovers suffer a metaphysical crisis, seeking to know what is good, what is evil, and how to truly know the difference. Knowing, however, invites the terrible into their world. The Devil, a seductive trickster, haunts the landscape as a voice who dares each inquisitor to learn about mortality, morality, ... Read more
Furious Lullaby is both a celebration of and a eulogy to the body in the twenty-first century. The collection, which examines the larger concepts of salvation and temptation in a world of blossoming strife, includes a series of aubades - dramatic poems culminating with the separation of lovers at dawn. The lovers suffer a metaphysical crisis, seeking to know what is good, what is evil, and how to truly know the difference. Knowing, however, invites the terrible into their world. The Devil, a seductive trickster, haunts the landscape as a voice who dares each inquisitor to learn about mortality, morality, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Series
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor's Selection
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809327744
SKU
V9780809327744
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About Professor Oliver de La Paz
Oliver de la Paz, an assistant professor of English at Western Washington University, is the author of Names above Houses, published by Southern Illinois University Press, and is a recipient of a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His poems have appeared in the Literary Review, Quarterly West, Third Coast, and Asian Pacific American Review, and in ... Read more
Reviews for Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
The poems in Furious Lullaby contain as much mischief as they do music, surprising the reader with a chorus of unexpected voices - a scapula, the dead, the Devil - and weaving those moments into a series of heartbreaking aubades that sing to the gorgeous melancholy of memory and loss. - Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of Other Fugitives and Other Strangers ... Read more