On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809329298 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Buy this book Einherjarr This a fantastic collection, with the finest list based poetry to be written about such intricate things. The poems hold your hand and show you delicate discoveries, pointing them out in gorgeous and playful verse.
The poems in Lee Ann Roripaugh’s intimate pillow book shimmer and glitter, blurring the line between text and image. Moths, spiders, cats, clouds, gumballs, ladybugs and lovers are woven into a vibrant pattern that juxtaposes the delicious with the illicit, the still life with the quick silverfish, the imperious antennae of ants with the furred curve of a peach. . Desire, along with its many disguises and tricks, is the hard, fierce center of this gorgeous canticle to earthly love.”Maura Stanton, author of Immortal Sofa
Often calling upon the passing of the seasons and revelations of nature, these lyrically elegant poems chronicle the dangers and delights of a range of issues facing contemporary womenfrom bisexuality and biracial culture and identity, to restless nights and lingering memories of the past. Roripaugh, in both an homage to and a dialogue with women writers of the past, explores the trials of women facing the treacherous waters of time while losing none of the grace and decadence of femininity. Lady Murasaki wrote in The Tale of Genji that th