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The Theme of Tonight's Party has Been Changed. Poems.
Dana Roeser
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Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.
Sui generis, Dana Roeser’s poems are spoken by a stand-up comic having a bad night at the local club. The long extended syntax, spread over her quirky, syncopated short lines, contains (barely) the speaker’s anxieties over an ageing father with Parkinson’s, the maturation of two daughters, friends at twelve-step meetings and their sometimes suicidal urges - acted on or resisted - and her own place in a world that seems about to spin out of control. Bad weather and tiny economy cars speeding down the interstate next to Jurassic semis become the metaphor, or figurative vehicle, for this poet’s sense ... Read more
Sui generis, Dana Roeser’s poems are spoken by a stand-up comic having a bad night at the local club. The long extended syntax, spread over her quirky, syncopated short lines, contains (barely) the speaker’s anxieties over an ageing father with Parkinson’s, the maturation of two daughters, friends at twelve-step meetings and their sometimes suicidal urges - acted on or resisted - and her own place in a world that seems about to spin out of control. Bad weather and tiny economy cars speeding down the interstate next to Jurassic semis become the metaphor, or figurative vehicle, for this poet’s sense ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625340979
SKU
V9781625340979
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Ref
99-15
About Dana Roeser
Dana Roeser is the author of two previous books of poetry, Beautiful Motion and In the Truth Room, both winners of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. She has been the recipient of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Beautiful Motion and an NEA Individual Artist’s Fellowship. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana, and serves on the ... Read more
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