Oxygen Man - Softcover

Limburg, Joanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907869581 ISBN 13: 9781907869587

Verlag: Five Leaves Publications, 2012

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Limburg's universe appears to be constantly twisting away from perception even as she pins it down in lines of singular economy. --Poetry Book Society

Joanne Limburg's The Oxygen Man is an honest, difficult lurch through the aftermath of the suicide of her brother. It calls to mind the extended epic epitaph on the same situation, Anne Carson's Nox. This pamphlet expresses a 'life goes on' sensibility alongside a grappling with true grief. --Poetry London

I always look forward to poetry from Joanne Limburg. Since her debut collection Feminismo (2000), she has been writing wise and witty verse which explains what it means to be English, Jewish and female. This activity involves family, particularly her mother and father in Feminismo. In the wonderful, albeit slim, new collection, The Oxygen Man, the family member in the spotlight is her brother: Being a sister, / she knows that brothers are born to trouble / Her part is to rescue him Unfortunately Limburg could not save her brother from untimely death: Now I'm Joanne, and call your name But Joanne cannot call on Judaism to salve the pain: I lost my religion / after a long wasting Like the rest of us, she shoulders the weight of adult life and asks for pardon from those who die young: forgive us, please / for repeating ourselves, for being unlovely / and not copping out --Peter Lawson, Jewish Chronicle

Reseña del editor:

The poems that make up 'The Oxygen Man' were written in response to the death of the author's younger brother, a brilliant chemist who took his own life in 2008. They follow Limburg as she visits the mid-Western town where her brother lived, worked and died, range back over their shared childhood, and look ahead as she tries to work out what it means to be the one who stays behind.

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• Verlag: Five Leaves Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1907869581
• ISBN 13: 9781907869587
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32