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Black Aperture : Poems /
In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame of dead you / answering calls." In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, "a flower / of smoldering filaments." A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, "a tinfoil lake," "vegetables / dying in the crisper." |
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| Item Description: | "Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of the American Poets"--Cover. "LSU Press Paperback Original"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (72 pages). |
| Awards: | National Book Award finalist for poetry, 2013 |
| ISBN: | 9780807150870 |