Twice Told |
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| Author:
| Pagel, Caryl |
| Series title: | Akron Series in Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62922-171-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2019 |
| Publisher: | University of Akron Press, The
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $15.99 |
Book Description:
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The poems in Twice Told roam through Midwest and western landscapes haunted by shards of nineteenth-century gothic novels, war stories, warnings, and the ghosts of known and imagined lovers, mothers, soldiers, trainmates, and mistresses. These are poems interested in narrative framing, repetition, rumor, humor, and hearsay; poems that loop back in on themselves as they compulsively repeat the details of furious, apparitional pasts--implicating both teller and reader in their impacts.
The poems in Twice Told roam through Midwest and western landscapes haunted by shards of nineteenth-century gothic novels, war stories, warnings, and the ghosts of known and imagined lovers, mothers, soldiers, trainmates, and mistresses. These are poems interested in narrative framing, repetition, rumor, humor, and hearsay; poems that loop back in on themselves as they compulsively repeat the details of furious, apparitional pasts--implicating both teller and reader in their impacts.