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The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected

✍ Scribed by Lynn Emanuel

Book ID: 110947567
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 37 KB
Series: Pitt Poetry
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780822981053
ASIN: B0141BJ13U

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings and pleases with its intelligence, wit and vivacity. It breaks through, in ways that are bold, sexy, haunting and wry, the die-hard opposition of new and old, personal narrative and linguistic play, sincerity and irony, misery and hilarity. Open the book. Something new is happening here.

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