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"I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid poetics that radically reimagines the shape of our poetic discourse. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2010.
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| ISBN: | 9780822990659 0822990652 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- My Life
- Part One
- Martinis, filets and cigarettes, tea sandwiches
- The living teetered at the edge of a cliff.
- The Revolution
- Into the clearing of . . .
- Personal experiences are chains and balls
- The Occupation
- Homage to George Herriman
- Metamorphosis
- Part Two
- The Mongrelogues: Two Acts
- Dramatis Personae
- Act One
- Act Two
- Part Three
- Dream In Which I Meet Myself
- Dear Diary, here in New York City,
- Hello, Mallarmé,
- I tried to flatter myself into extinction
- tried to bury alive in a landslide
- While my mother lies in a hospital bed tethered to the earth
- These days, Ou sont les neiges d'antan? I often wonder. And What are people
- Like that time in Paris
- I told my student Kimber Lester if you cannot actually write
- April 18, the 21st Century
- Dedication
- Dear Final Journey,
- Notes
- Acknowledgments.