Second Story

Poems

Second Story
Denise Duhamel
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NZ$ 45.99
Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 100pg
28 Jul 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780822966531
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When her Florida apartment is damaged by the ferocity of Hurricane Irma, Duhamel turns to Dante and terza rima, reconstructing the form into the long poem "Terza Irma. " Throughout the book she investigates our near-catastrophic ecological and political moment, hyperaware of her own complicity, resistance, and agency. She writes odes to her favorite uncle - who was "green" before it was a hashtag - and Mother Nature via a retro margarine commercial. She writes letters to her failing memory as well as to America' s amnesia. With fear of the water below and a burglar who enters through her second story window, she bravely faces the story under the story, the second story we often neglect to tell.
Past Praise for Denise Duhamel: "Funny and satiric, always with an edge of existential sorrow. " --ALA"Political and socially critical, yes, but [her poems' ] most delicious subversion is in their delivery: frankness and its accompanying joy. " --The Miami Rail"Duhamel. . . presents the miracle of how serious a life embedded in humdrum and commercialized reality can be. " --Booklist"Duhamel puts language on a taut high wire, gives it a spotlight, and makes it dazzle. . . . Beauty is always risky, and with Duhamel at the wheel, it' s also always where we will be delivered. I' ll follow Duhamel anywhere she leads. " --Florida Book Review"Duhamel' s poetry is admirable for so many reasons; she' s playful and wise and funny and heartbreaking all at once. What more do you want from poetry? "--Chamber Four
Denise Duhamel is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. Her previous books include Scald, Blowout, Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Kinky. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780822966531
Published: 28 Jul 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 100

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