Wonderama - Poems

Wonderama - Poems
Catherine Doty
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Paperback
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3 Mar 2021
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9781933880822
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Wonderama is a collection of cinematic, surprising, and at times harrowing poems that capture 1960s Paterson, New Jersey, as experienced by the poorest, most vulnerable children living there. With candor, ferocity, and stunning imagery, Catherine Doty' s poems explore survival and loss in the life of a young girl escaping the perils of want, neglect, and abuse. At times both heartbreaking and vaudevillian, Doty' s work chronicles sexual awakening and assault, alcoholism, the hazards of Catholic school, and the complex consequences of coming of age in the inner city.
"Wonderama delves gloriously into the shame-filled mess of searing poverty, and finds wonder there, in the absurdity of human meanness, our stupidity, frailty, madness, and kindness. Doty drops us directly inside childhood experience without sentimentality. Despairing as they sometimes are, these are not poems of despair. She' s not looking toward heaven to justify the suffering of the people in these poems. She knows they can' t afford such luxury. Instead, with compassion, humor and often astonishingly beautiful imagery, Doty invites us to stay right here, rooted to the earth with her and them. We' re grateful for the invitation. "-- "Martin Jude Farawell, director, Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and author of ' Odd Boy' " "In Catherine Doty' s poetry the lyric gift and the comic gift are so finely interfused that you can turn a poem inside out and not expose a single seam. Over and over in her poems, these two rarest of gifts react, and produce the mysterious virtue called style. In Doty' s first book of magic, momentum, I thought I was just being sledded too fast to see how it was done. Now we have this--Wonderama, with its relaxed texture and magisterial tempos--and I still can' t see how it' s done. But that is a wonder for the way home. For the most and best of this book' s wonders, just open the gate and walk through. "-- "Robert Carnevale"
Catherine Doty is a poet, cartoonist, and educator from Paterson, New Jersey. She is the author of momentum, also published by CavanKerry Press, and Just Kidding, a collection of cartoons.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781933880822
Published: 3 Mar 2021
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Imprint: CavanKerry Press
Publisher: CavanKerry Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 9mm
Width: 6mm
Spine: 1mm
Pages: 72

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