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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Diamonds

Diamonds

Guthrie, Camille

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1950774457
ISBN13: 9781950774456
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: Oct 5 2021
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Diamonds presents a woman in midlife on the edge. In hilarious and heartbreaking poems, Camille Guthrie writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life--and the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love.

Witty resilience abounds in these irreverent poems about grief and desire--in which the poet meditates upon gender roles, history, pop culture, and academia. Guthrie subverts and teases traditional forms in an elegy about Sylvia Plath's prom dress, a dating profile for Hieronymus Bosch, a sestina about beauty and power--with radical dramatic monologues in the voices of Madame du Barry, a Pict Woman, and more. Unlike Virgil, who refuses to guide this poet through her journey at midlife, Guthrie leads readers by the hand into a provoking, affecting journey of a break-up and a reconciliation with love.

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