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After I Was Dead: Poems

After I Was Dead: Poems

Mullen, Laura

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 082033278X
ISBN13: 9780820332789
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Aug 1 2008
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This powerful collection of poems from Laura Mullen is the edgy, unashamedly experimental, and formally inventive book of a poet who has found her way to her own voice or style--or rather voices and styles, for there are several. The poems of After I Was Dead develop harmonically rather than melodically: they leap from one register, one voice, one tone to another in deft juxtapositions that carry narrative only incidentally, destabilizing traditional notions of development. These poems are honed by a fine intelligence into elegant, sometimes funny art, as in Autumn Her hair, brown. / Her specialty, damage. / Her specialty, becoming / Something else. Her hair, falling / Leaves, leaf rot, and then soil. Through her rediscovery of the freedom Emily Dickinson located in being dead (in writing from over the border of an already recognized erasure), Mullen increases the territory of the contemporary poem.

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