Lo: Poems (Iowa Poetry Prize) - Softcover

Crowe, Melissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609388992 ISBN 13: 9781609388997

Verlag: University of Iowa Press, 2023

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Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman—tender, hungry, hopeful—who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explores the notion that we can be partially constituted by lack—poverty, neglect, isolation. The child in the book’s early sections is beloved and lonely, cherished and abused, lucky and imperiled, and by leaning into this complexity the poems render a tentative and shimmering space sometimes occluded, the space occupied by a girl coming to find herself and the world beautiful, even as that world harms her.
 

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Melissa Crowe is author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor. She coordinates the MFA program in creative writing at UNCW, where she teaches poetry and publishing. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.
 

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From “General Absolution”
Will you know what I mean if I say
we should have designated all the water
holy? I’m trying to forgive you. And if you’re
wondering who you are, you’re everyone.
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1609388992
• ISBN 13: 9781609388997
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 78
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