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Quite apart / Krystal Languell.
Author
Languell, Krystal, 1984-
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Uniform title
Poems.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2019.
©2019
Description
90 pages ; 23 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS3612.A5853 A6 2019
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Poetry
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poetry
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Series
Akron series in poetry
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Summary note
"Quite Apart asks 'what about after survival?' in a chronicle of attempts to have a heart in a rough world. Haunted by work and its wasted hours, the book offers a glimpse of self-rendered as subtext beneath the sheen of productivity. Inventive formal poems provide a kind of alibi, mirroring the inflexibility of the environment--driving through mountains, bleeding in alleys, losing keys in a bar parking lot--to allow some emotion to pass through, tenderness intact. The action among forms of address moves across the sections from direct to readerly, to more distant, back to the last/lost sequence, and ultimately into an intimate direct address, which builds up a reserve of trust adequate to collapse the distance of a cool operator. Mediated by grammatical invention, the collection enacts the making of an authentic place and self, reckoning with difficult truths (failures, omissions) to arrive at a state of peace having weathered some storms. It returns to a core and singular perspective, a knowing eye, that captures absurdity and tragedy, the absurdity of tragedy, to find--beyond vigilance--a balance between acceptance and bucking, which is perhaps another name for love"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9781629221427 (paperback : alkaline paper)
1629221422 (paperback : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2018051841
OCLC
1074307651
Other standard number
40028986279
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