In Praise of Falling.
Title:
In Praise of Falling.
Author:
Dumesnil, Cheryl.
ISBN:
9780822978282
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (89 pages)
Series:
Pitt Poetry Series
Contents:
Contents -- I. Theories -- It's not Armageddon -- Atlantis -- Don't Miss It -- Bernal Heights -- "A Soldier's Home, Hughes, Arkansas, 1970" -- Theories -- Prayer for Sleep -- American Robin -- Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head -- On the first day of class -- Moon, Jacket, Yellow, Tree, Violin -- II. Changing Room -- The Storyteller's Daughter -- Killing -- The Amnesiac, Seventh Grade -- Chosen -- Stars -- The Hill -- Clarissa's Great Aunt -- Changing Room -- Triangle Tattoo -- Hard Labor -- III. Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep -- Foundling -- Nightmare Predicting Change -- Recurring -- Junk Shop Magic -- True -- Afterbirth -- Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep -- Other Nights -- Revisited -- Narrative -- IV. Say Yes -- In Praise of Falling -- Meteorology -- The Swimmer -- Wetlands -- Don't Ask Me -- When -- If -- Q to the 6 Train -- Creature -- Dark Magic -- Getting It Right This Time -- Say Yes -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century's prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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