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Carnival Life
Lesley Dauer
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Description for Carnival Life
Paperback. Each poem in this award-winning collection represents the life of a carnival performer or that of an outsider whose life is rife with carnival metaphor. Through deft, incisive portraits, Lesley Dauer populates these pages with people and animals in whom we recognise our own strengths, quirks, and bewilderment. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
Each poem in this award-winning collection represents the life of a carnival performer or that of an outsider whose life is rife with carnival metaphor. For instance, “The Two-Headed Woman and the Two-Faced Man” is both literal and metaphorical. Naturally, she draws carnival audiences, and as an outsider and illusionist of sorts, he complicates her life.
Through deft, incisive portraits, Lesley Dauer populates these pages with people and animals in whom we recognize our own strengths, quirks, and bewilderment. We meet among others: a human cannonball preoccupied with thoughts of his family’s welfare, a contortionist controlled by his ... Read more
Each poem in this award-winning collection represents the life of a carnival performer or that of an outsider whose life is rife with carnival metaphor. For instance, “The Two-Headed Woman and the Two-Faced Man” is both literal and metaphorical. Naturally, she draws carnival audiences, and as an outsider and illusionist of sorts, he complicates her life.
Through deft, incisive portraits, Lesley Dauer populates these pages with people and animals in whom we recognize our own strengths, quirks, and bewilderment. We meet among others: a human cannonball preoccupied with thoughts of his family’s welfare, a contortionist controlled by his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Mercer University Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780881465716
SKU
V9780881465716
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About Lesley Dauer
Lesley Dauer received degrees from Middlebury, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Harvard, USA. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Boulevard, Grand Street and Poetry, and anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (CMUP). Her first book of poems, The Fragile City, won the Bluestem Award. Dauer teaches English and Creative Writing at Foothill College in California, ... Read more
Reviews for Carnival Life
“These poems are simultaneously brilliant and humble. No living poet I know is this good.”—David Huddle, author of Glory River