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The Year We Studied Women (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry)
Bruce Snider
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Description for The Year We Studied Women (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry)
Paperback. In this intimate first poetry collection, Bruce Snider explores the intricacies of memory, loss and identity. A farmer finds the body of a dead child, a boy watches his mother get ready for a date, an overweight sister shares a cupcake. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
In this intimate first collection, Bruce Snider explores the intricacies of memory, loss, and identity. A farmer finds the body of a dead child, a boy watches his mother get ready for a date, an overweight sister shares a cupcake. Sometimes funny, always big-hearted and inventive, Snider's book is an attempt to reconcile it all - past and present, fear and desire, self and sexuality - making the barest symbols into their own deeply personal language.
In this intimate first collection, Bruce Snider explores the intricacies of memory, loss, and identity. A farmer finds the body of a dead child, a boy watches his mother get ready for a date, an overweight sister shares a cupcake. Sometimes funny, always big-hearted and inventive, Snider's book is an attempt to reconcile it all - past and present, fear and desire, self and sexuality - making the barest symbols into their own deeply personal language.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299193843
SKU
V9780299193843
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About Bruce Snider
Bruce Snider is originally from rural Indiana and has lived for several years in Austin, Texas, where he was a James A. Michener Fellow and earned his MFA in poetry and playwriting at the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His poetry has appeared in the Mid-American Review, Prairie ... Read more
Reviews for The Year We Studied Women (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry)
"How can poems be so fierce and so delicate all at once?... Mystery stitches its luminous seam through the lines. These poems are comforting in their perfection." - Naomi Shihab Nye