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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Interrobang

Interrobang

Piazza, Jessica

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1597097225
ISBN13: 9781597097222
Publisher: Red Hen Pr
Published: Aug 1 2013
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Existing at the intersection of darkness and play, the noisy, irreverent, and self-conscious poems in Interrobang take clinical phobias and clinical philias as their conceit. Each poem makes its own music, the crescendos and decrescendos born of obsessions over anxiety and lust. Encompassing a range of forms (but mostly sonnets), each piece toes the line between traditional meter and contemporary sonic play, while a tell-tale heart beats beneath the floor of the collection, constantly reminding us of our shames, fears, and the clock's unrelenting ticking. Through individual stories about love, degradation of the self, the redemptive power of genuine humility, and the refuge offered by art and language, Interrobang, winner of the 2012 A Room of Her Own Foundation To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize, illustrates how even the worst-case scenario of these pathologies are, fundamentally, just extensions of the dark truths to which every one of us can relate.

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