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Death at the Mall: New and Selected Poems

Death at the Mall: New and Selected Poems

Twaronite, Gene

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639806210
ISBN13: 9781639806218
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 15 2024
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Gene Twaronite's Death at the Mall, a wry and earnest take on the human predicament is everywhere apparent -our desires and follies, our great possibilities and perpetual undoing are all on display. But here too is an underlying sweetness in the poems that perseveres: an orientation of wonder and astonishment, often brought on by the world itself, in all its unknowable splendor, or brought on by the fecklessness of our actions in the face of the grander forces that shape our days. Twaronite's formal interest and dexterity are on full display in these selected works-whether sestinas spooling out, or the sonic energy of an interior rhyme, or riffs on Marianne Moore or Gertrude Stein. In his poem Distress, Twaronite recounts the occasion of coming upon a beached sea lion in distress, an inscrutable moment / between me and one sea lion / sharing the common anxiety / of where the next blow will fall, / trying to make sense of it all. In the crucible of Twaronite's poems, we see the things we are made of with rigorous attention, made new by a capacious imagination.

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