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Julie Hanson’s award-winning collection, Unbeknownst, gives us plainspoken poems of unstoppable candor. They are astonished and sobered by the incoming data; they are funny; they are psychologically accurate and beautifully made. Hanson’s is a mind interested in human responsibility—to ourselves and to each other—and unhappy about the disappointments that are bound to transpire (“We’ve been like gods, our powers wastedâ€). These poems are lonely with spiritual longing and wise with remorse for all that cannot last.
“The Kindergartners†begins, “All their lives they’ve waited for / the yellow bus to come for them,†then moves directly to the present reality: “Now it’s February and the mat / is wet.†Settings and events are local and familiar, never more exotic than a yoga session at the Y, one of several instances where the body is central to the report and to the net result (“I slip in and fold / behind the wheel into the driver’s seat like a thin young thing: / My organs are surely glistening. This car was made for me.“). These poems are intimate revelations, thinking as they go, including the reader in the progress of their thoughts.
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- Pages:66 pages
- Publisher:University of Iowa Press
- Publication Date:15/03/2011
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:66 pages
- Publisher:University of Iowa Press
- Publication Date:15/03/2011
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- ISBN:9781587299650
