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Brittany Perham's first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love.
These poems make up a cabinet of curiosities because they hold what is fascinating or frightening, beautiful or awesome- a "stomach plumed by syringe," a "zoo's lost leopard," a "forest of high-waisted trees"- up to the eye.
In their image-making, the poems place language itself beneath the glass slide of a microscope in order to discern its component structures, its natural patterns.
Curiosity here is a way of looking-unsatisfiable, looping back on itself, yielding only further questions.
In these uncanny and passionate poems our own lives are made strange to us, and we are wonderstruck.
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- Pages:73 pages
- Publisher:Parlor Press, LLC
- Publication Date:30/11/2011
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- ISBN:9781602352407
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:73 pages
- Publisher:Parlor Press, LLC
- Publication Date:30/11/2011
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- ISBN:9781602352407
