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Impossible Bottle: Poems
Hardcover
Series: Southern Messenger Poets
ISBN13: 9780807160824
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Sep 9 2015
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.95 Depth: 9.31
Language: English
This posthumous volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson explores the suspended state of existence that illness imposes upon its sufferers -- what she calls the impossible bottle. With a strong will and a self-deprecating awareness of the instinct to seek meaning in metaphor, she confronts the indignities, fears, and moments of grace in a struggle with cancer. Her poems forge unlikely connections between the present reality and memories of the past, such as an MRI scan conjuring up images of a June expedition through a tunnel under a Maryland mountain.
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