On the Desire to Levitate e-bog
184,80 DKK
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On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adoles...
E-bog
184,80 DKK
Forlag
Ohio University Press
Udgivet
1 marts 2014
Genrer
Poetry by individual poets
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780821444917
On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adolescent girls as mythical adventurers moving within a beloved but confining Midwest. Yet in Powell's skillful hands, hardship never overtakes: as judge Charles Hood writes, "e;There's often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity."e;