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Dreamlife of a Philanthropist

Dreamlife of a Philanthropist

Kaplan, Janet

Paperback

Series: Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry

General PoetryGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 0268033226
ISBN13: 9780268033224
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Feb 15 2011
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.13 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

With a salve in one hand and a burcher's knife in the other, Janet Kaplan offers her masterful third collection, Dreamlife of a Philanthropist, winner of the 2011 Ernest Sandeen prize in Poetry. The prose poems and sonnets in Dreamlife are packed with postmodern language-leaping, modern irony and absurdity, and a poet's ageless ear for the pleasures of the lyric and formal experimentation. These are poems that can never quite abandon the hope that life--and language--are worthy pursuits; but they never offer up easy assurances about the benefits of humanity to anyone or anything. Get ready for dogs that wail and overtake the scene; an invitation to make love on a mattress of ants; and the philanthropist of the title, who dreams that people are tuned into fish. It's good luck and bad in random but equal measure, Kaplan writes in Life and Times.

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