Notes for My Body Double. Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry |
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| Author:
| Guest, Paul |
| Series title: | Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-281-09243-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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Who would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three Stooges might have something to say about the love and loss that shape the way we see the world? And yet these are the pop-culture coordinates that chart the emotional life brilliantly mapped out in Paul Guest s second book of poems. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry, this collection plumbs the depths of nature and culture (how, for instance, gar in Old English means spear,...
More DescriptionWho would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three Stooges might have something to say about the love and loss that shape the way we see the world? And yet these are the pop-culture coordinates that chart the emotional life brilliantly mapped out in Paul Guest s second book of poems. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry, this collection plumbs the depths of nature and culture (how, for instance, gar in Old English means spear, and an octopus can lose a limb during mating) to give form to the darkness and the light that make us human."