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Blue on Blue Ground
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Series: Pitt Poetry
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ISBN10: 0822958880
ISBN13: 9780822958888
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Sep 26 2005
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.34 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
ISBN13: 9780822958888
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Sep 26 2005
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.34 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Blue on Blue Ground is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession--how what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used against us). These poems are artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable.
Smith's relentless self-examination, fear, sense of humor, and vulnerability are all laid to bare in crisp, precise language. From lonely observations, bizarre medical fascinations, emotion, loss, and honesty, Blue on Blue Ground constructs its internal and external worlds.
Blue on Blue Ground is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession--how what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used against us). These poems are artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable.
Smith's relentless self-examination, fear, sense of humor, and vulnerability are all laid to bare in crisp, precise language. From lonely observations, bizarre medical fascinations, emotion, loss, and honesty, Blue on Blue Ground constructs its internal and external worlds.
The metaphorical city is also a body, a place of exile and restoration, a symbol of hope, a catalyst for connection. The urban landscape is often the background for the moment or is the moment itself--the world looked at and sorted into words. Though at times dark, there's love to be found. Perhaps it's what drives this collection, colors its observations, and leads it to finally announce: Someone is putting the world back together. Blue on Blue Ground wants to look at absolutely everything and believes that complete exploration of the physical and mental selves--fears and desires--is the key to moving and being completely alive in the material world.
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