| How We Spent Our Time Contributor(s): Rutsala, Vern (Author) |
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ISBN: 1931968284 ISBN-13: 9781931968287 Publisher: University of Akron Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2005031553 |
| Series: Akron Series in Poetry (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.35 lbs) 84 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nearly every poem in How We Spent Our Time flies at its mast a title in the form of a gerund or gerund phrase, that humble verbal noun. The book's table of contents, therefore, reads like an equally humble enumeration of the ways a human lifetime can be paid out, so to speak: looking, getting, owning, learning. We all do them all. And yet there is exceptional artistry in the testimonials these doings make witness to. The arrangement of the poems within the text is part of it. Note how keeping immediately precedes spending, in the poems Keeping It Together and Spending the Night; these poems are conversational but endlessly skilful in the ways they keep the language vivid and fresh and surprising. How We Spent Our Time is flush with pangs and satisfactions, abundant with wisdom and delight. |