| The Rabbits Could Sing: Poems Contributor(s): Thomas, Amber Flora (Author) |
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ISBN: 1602231591 ISBN-13: 9781602231597 Publisher: University of Alaska Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2011032943 |
| Series: Alaska Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 6.09" W x 8.88" (0.31 lbs) 67 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The poems included in The Rabbits Could Sing delve farther into territory that Amber Flora Thomas visited in her prize-winning book Eye of Water, showing even more clearly how "the seam has been pulled so far open on the past" that "the dress will never close." Here, the poem acts not as a body in itself but as a garb drawn around the here and now. Loss, longing, and violation are sustenance to a spirit jarred from its animal flesh and torn apart, unsettling the reader with surprising images that are difficult to forget. The poems in The Rabbits Could Sing invite the reader into a world thick with the lush bounty of summer in the far north, where the present is never far from the shadow of the past. |