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The Real Enough World
Karen Brennan
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Description for The Real Enough World
hardcover. Lyrical, philosophical, and inventive poems. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 327.
The Real Enough World speculates about the invention of self and world in the act of writing poems. Like orchestral movements, the poems vary in tonal qualities and speed, moving from sensibility-driven, antic poems through a deeply personal series of narratives to poems of philosophical reflection where landscape and love operate as tropes for each other. Underlying the whole is the poet's sense that the material of life, as well as language, is insoluble and impermanent-humorous, tragic, absurd, joyous. Even when the mood of the book is most surreal, it is grounded in its accounts of the real enough.
The Real Enough World speculates about the invention of self and world in the act of writing poems. Like orchestral movements, the poems vary in tonal qualities and speed, moving from sensibility-driven, antic poems through a deeply personal series of narratives to poems of philosophical reflection where landscape and love operate as tropes for each other. Underlying the whole is the poet's sense that the material of life, as well as language, is insoluble and impermanent-humorous, tragic, absurd, joyous. Even when the mood of the book is most surreal, it is grounded in its accounts of the real enough.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819567512
SKU
V9780819567512
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About Karen Brennan
Karen Brennan is the author of six books of varying genres including poetry collections Here on Earth (1989) and The Real Enough World (2006), both from Wesleyan University Press; AWP Award-winning short fiction Wild Desire (1990), U Mass Press; The Garden in Which I Walk (2005), Fiction Collective 2; and a memoir, Being with Rachel (2001) Norton. Her fiction, poetry ... Read more
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