Impossible Bottle: Poems Contributor(s): Emerson, Claudia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807160822 ISBN-13: 9780807160824 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2015000308 |
Series: Southern Messenger Poets |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.95" W x 9.31" (0.64 lbs) 80 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This posthumous volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson explores the suspended state of existence that illness imposes upon its sufferers -- what she calls the impossible bottle. With a strong will and a self-deprecating awareness of the instinct to seek meaning in metaphor, she confronts the indignities, fears, and moments of grace in a struggle with cancer. Her poems forge unlikely connections between the present reality and memories of the past, such as an MRI scan conjuring up images of a June expedition through a tunnel under a Maryland mountain. |