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Atlas: Poems

Atlas: Poems

Vandenberg, Katrina

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1571314199
ISBN13: 9781571314192
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Sep 30 2004
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Awards: Minnesota Book Award

A first book of remarkable talent and depth. --PATTIANN ROGERS

Like Atlas holding up the world, this collection elevates human history--acknowledging and transforming patterns of all kinds through careful attention.

In Atlas, Katrina Vandenberg captures the way events reverberate and repeat across time and place. In the seventeenth century in the Netherlands, as one poem notes, a virus fueled through the tulip trade, making the flowers' veined petals so beautiful the price of bulbs soared; in the twentieth century in the United States, blood tainted with the AIDS virus was inadvertently transfused into the veins of hemophiliacs, eclipsing the purpose that briefly lit their brilliant veins. In another poem, Vandenberg links an image of her sister, pausing in her work as housekeeper, with the contours of a maid in a Vermeer painting and a woman just made over on that day's episode of Oprah.

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