Likenesses Contributor(s): Tone, Heather (Author), Flynn, Nick (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0983300828 ISBN-13: 9780983300823 Publisher: American Poetry Review OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
Series: Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6.9" W x 8.9" (0.40 lbs) 66 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: It's almost impossible to explain why the playfulness of Heather Tone's Likenesses produces such delight. . . . Freedom, light, leggerezza, speed, and depth. Crystal abyss, 'nothing, ' a touch of kabala. Perfect projections of shades between death and life, a scent of Eden. Like four-year-old boys throwing clumps of mud at each other, bursting into happy laughter. These lines scream with joy. --Boston Review Likenesses was selected by Nick Flynn for the prestigious Honickman First Book Award. In his introduction he writes: Likenesses is made up of five sequences of poems, many of which use the engine of simile to drive them forward. Running alongside this simile-generating machine, there is something also here of Genesis--the book is, in part, an origin myth, an attempt to create the world by naming it. Likenesses When he is dead, a man in a Heather Tone's poetry has appeared in The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, Fence, and other journals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently lives in Florida. |