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Main Author: Atkinson, Colette LaBouff (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
Series:Phoenix poets
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Item Description:Acknowledgments; Space Race; Mean; Mean, Part Two; Medium Intense Red Copper; Rocket; Loose; Heat Wave; Hart Crane Slept Here; Four; London (1987); Wrecking; Three Days of the Condor; The Glass Show Lounge; Bakasana; Deal; "I'm sorry I was blind"; Hover; Intention (The Dead Leaves); Gain; Spring Fling; New World; Laurel; Replacement Monkey; Spirit; Proximity; Juju's Sister; Gun Dog; Flower Girl; Park Bench; "Perhaps this verse would please you better -- Sue -- (2)"; Prosthetic; Garden Variety; "For God's sake, get out"; Route; 1652; Graphic Novel Romance (V for Vendetta); Ghost Squad
In the appropriately titled Mean, Colette LaBouff Atkinson's speakers confront a series of cruel lovers, estranged ex-husbands and ex-ex-wives, neglectful parents, disrespectful children, menacing drunks, would-be rapists, well-meaning but ineffectual teachers, and that annoying kid in first grade who wouldn't leave you alone. Managing to "say" what most of us would only think but never dare speak out loud, this stunning debut collection reveals that the horrors and cruelty we experience in everyday life can turn out to be very real indeed. But Atkinson does not merely rake her subjects across
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 51 pages)
ISBN:0226030601
9780226030609

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