| How Many Faces Do You Have?: Poems Contributor(s): Schneider, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 1680031325 ISBN-13: 9781680031324 Publisher: Texas Review Press OUR PRICE: $8.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2017009815 |
| Physical Information: 0.1" H x 2.7" W x 8.8" (0.10 lbs) 48 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How Many Faces Do You Have? is a poem sequence that interrogates intimacy, each poem a face the poet discovers, a reflection revealed in response to inner questioning. In a voice of quiet sonority, these lyrics journey from a high-school gym dance to a moonlit beach polka. They linger over sushi in Montreal and an airline meal at 40,000 feet on a flight. They touch joy and pain and celebrate the vicissitudes of love that goes "into the tangled heartland / where there is no trail," as a gift of being. A face is such a strange thing. Obsessed with distortion, Modigliani loved elongated faces like Tamara's at a distance, a flattened oval, two black jewels. He painted with a dagger in his teeth, they say, to see the face within the face -- grave, cold-eyed as Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, whom I've always loved for her name alone. |