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Cold Pastoral: Poems
Contributor(s): Dunham, Rebecca (Author)
ISBN: 1571314784     ISBN-13: 9781571314789
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
OUR PRICE:   $14.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature
- Poetry | American - General
- Poetry | Women Authors
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2016029440
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.25 lbs) 80 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
A searing, urgent collection of poems that brings the lyric and documentary together in unparalleled ways--unmasking and examining the specter of manmade disaster. The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Hurricane Katrina. The Flint water crisis. Thousands dead, lives destroyed, and a natural world imperiled by human choices. This is the litany of our time--and these are the events that Rebecca Dunham traces, passionately and brilliantly, in Cold Pastoral. In poems that incorporate interviews and excerpts from government documents and other sources--poems that adopt the pastoral and elegiac traditions in a landscape where "I can't see the bugs; I don't hear the birds"--Dunham finds the intersection between moral witness and shattering art. Experimental and incisive, Cold Pastoral is a collection that reveals what poetry can--and, perhaps, should--be, reflecting ourselves and our world back with gorgeous clarity.

Contributor Bio(s): Dunham, Rebecca: - Rebecca Dunham is the author of three previous books of poetry: Glass Armonica, winner of Milkweed Editions' 2013 Lindquist & Vennum Prize; The Flight Cage; and The Miniature Room, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. She has been the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and was the 2005-6 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.