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The Swing Girl : Poems /
In the title poem of The Swing Girl, a Greek burial relic with an image of a small child on her swing suggests the ability to move between present culture and the ghosts of history, between modern metaphor and the rhetoric of myth. Katherine Soniat celebrates this fluidity and the detached yet vulne...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge, La. :
Louisiana State University Press,
2011.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | In the title poem of The Swing Girl, a Greek burial relic with an image of a small child on her swing suggests the ability to move between present culture and the ghosts of history, between modern metaphor and the rhetoric of myth. Katherine Soniat celebrates this fluidity and the detached yet vulnerable perception that comes with it: ôThe territory that girl could cover, her eyes peering birdlike / across the grove. The air, a vector.öSoniatAEs new collection contemplates the present through the fragmented lens of history. She swings the reader out across time, to ancient Greece and China, and. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (88 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807138953 |