Dante's Unintended Flight |
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| Author:
| Vogel, Emily |
| ISBN: | 978-1-63045-046-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2017 |
| Publisher: | New York Quarterly Foundation, Incorporated, The
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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Poetry. DANTE'S UNINTENDED FLIGHT is a series of linked prose poems, inspired by Vogel's two-week hiatus in Florence, Italy, in the summer of 2014. It contends with the complexities of gender—particularly womanhood, which Vogel weaves as being a maelstrom of contradictions, quandaries, and conundrums. It is set across a span of time in the city of Florence, and alludes to both history and modern society. These poems also give a nod to feminist theory in the context of fragmented...
More DescriptionPoetry. DANTE'S UNINTENDED FLIGHT is a series of linked prose poems, inspired by Vogel's two-week hiatus in Florence, Italy, in the summer of 2014. It contends with the complexities of gender—particularly womanhood, which Vogel weaves as being a maelstrom of contradictions, quandaries, and conundrums. It is set across a span of time in the city of Florence, and alludes to both history and modern society. These poems also give a nod to feminist theory in the context of fragmented story. The complicated and sometimes incendiary relationship between "man" and "woman" is illustrated here in a very surreal and introspective narrative, which extends as if a prolonged dream, amid what would be the almost "drugged" haziness of summer in perpetual flight.