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Unusually Grand Ideas : Poems /
"In his second poetry collection, James Davis May writes candidly about clinical depression and the complications it brings to marriage and fatherhood. Though titled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas ultimately discovers that the most audacious ideas of all...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In his second poetry collection, James Davis May writes candidly about clinical depression and the complications it brings to marriage and fatherhood. Though titled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas ultimately discovers that the most audacious ideas of all are those that lead us back to wonder and love. These discoveries do not come easy. At times, the darkness May describes is overwhelming, as when he compares the experience of a depressive episode to being "an unskilled swimmer who's gone / out too far and pauses to gauge the distance / he knows is likely to kill him." Through that distance, though, he still hears "voices he loves wondering where he is." The poems in Unusually Grand Ideas range from spare lyrical depictions of pain to discursive meditations that argue for hope, and though they take on some of the grandest ideas of all-the soul, civility, Good and Evil-they never lose sight of the concrete or the contemporary. Whether considering "the ridiculous splendor" of watching a meteor shower with his family or receiving spam from a dead friend's email account, May searches for meaning, asking the difficult but important questions that both trouble and sustain us"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (81 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807179468 |