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The Nerve of it. Poems New and Selected.
Lynn Emanuel
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Description for The Nerve of it. Poems New and Selected.
Paperback. Series: Pitt Poetry Series. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 525.
Winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings ... Read more
Winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Series
Pitt Poetry Series
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822963691
SKU
V9780822963691
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99-67
About Lynn Emanuel
Lynn Emanuel is the author of four previous books of poetry: Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, SuddenlyÑ, and, most recently, Noose and Hook. Her work has been featured in The Pushcart Prize Anthology and The Best American Poetry numerous times and is include
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