Consolation Miracle (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry) - Softcover

Davidson, Chad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809325411 ISBN 13: 9780809325412

Verlag: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV PR, 2003

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Consolation Miracle is a book of visceral, image-driven poems that search for the miraculous in the seemingly ordinary. This collection fashions art out of artless objects as a consolation, or perhaps compensation, for their smallness. Yawns and pears, cockroaches and crows resonate against historically conflated backdrops, while our own hands seem suddenly strange as they hide themselves in our pockets, balance a burning cigarette between two fingers, or grip the gun that shot Lincoln. Other poems address the destruction of empire, the end of old Hollywood, and the hyperbolic fizzling out of entire centuries. Here, consolation miracles are rarely the ones sought after, yet they radiate in their neglect. Davidson’s poems help us understand the inner life of cows, imagine the plight of a banished Kama Sutra illustrator, speculate about Cleopatra’s lingerie. With a title borrowed from Gabriel García Márquez, Consolation Miracle contains a magical realism for the twenty-first century.

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Chad Davidson is an assistant professor of English at the State University of West Georgia. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, DoubleTake, Epoch, The Paris Review, Pequod, Poet Lore, and numerous other publications.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809325411
• ISBN 13: 9780809325412
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 62
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