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Swift Hour
Megan Sexton
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Description for Swift Hour
Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
Swift Hour opens with an epigraph from a Leonard Cohen song, “I hope you’re keeping some kind of record.” Like Cohen, Sexton is looking for the crack in everything that lets the light in, but even more urgent is the recording of these moments. Life is quickly passing, but along the way, relics are harvested for safekeeping.Sexton is a poet in search of shadows as well as light. Her explorations range from the grieving mothers of the Disappeared of Argentina, the censorship of Anna Akmatova, to Ghandi’s ashes being scattered into the Ganges. With surrealist twists, her poems capture ... Read more
Swift Hour opens with an epigraph from a Leonard Cohen song, “I hope you’re keeping some kind of record.” Like Cohen, Sexton is looking for the crack in everything that lets the light in, but even more urgent is the recording of these moments. Life is quickly passing, but along the way, relics are harvested for safekeeping.Sexton is a poet in search of shadows as well as light. Her explorations range from the grieving mothers of the Disappeared of Argentina, the censorship of Anna Akmatova, to Ghandi’s ashes being scattered into the Ganges. With surrealist twists, her poems capture ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Mercer University Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780881464696
SKU
V9780881464696
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99-10
About Megan Sexton
Megan Sexton was born in New York and grew up on the Florida Gulf coast. Her poetry and nonfiction have been widely published in anthologies and journals, including Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Literary Review, as well as others. She is coeditor of Five Points and teaches at Georgia State University. Sexton plays drums for the Skylarks and lives ... Read more
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