| Hagiography Contributor(s): Currin, Jen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1552451976 ISBN-13: 9781552451977 Publisher: Coach House Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currins new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory. In a style that regularly pushes lifes barely hidden strangeness into the light, Currins poems present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event, a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move through become indistinguishable elements in a mysterious, familiar, vexing, fascinating, and continuous human drama. There are no saints in this hagiography only ghosts, sisters, spiders, birds This is an anti-biography. It starts with death and ends with birth. In between: life after life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2008396972 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.15" W x 8.01" (0.28 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currin's new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory. In a style that regularly pushes life's barely hidden strangeness into the light, Currin's poems present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event, a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move through become indistinguishable elements in a mysterious, familiar, vexing, fascinating, and continuous human drama. There are no saints in this hagiography - only ghosts, sisters, spiders, birds ... This is an anti-biography. It starts with death and ends with birth. In between: life after life. |