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    612-822-4611

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Lexicon

Lexicon

Joseph, Allison

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1597097179
ISBN13: 9781597097178
Publisher: Red Hen Pr
Published: Apr 27 2021
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Lexicon is a worthy successor to Allison Joseph's award-winning breakthrough, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman. This time around, this self-professed barefaced woman is setting her sighs/sights on language and what it does for and with and to her. Joseph loves language, making it her slippery passion in poems about childhood griefs and fashion faux pas, movie musicals and empty airports, rules for writing and rules for reading. Though Joseph loves language, it doesn't always love her back--but in her wise, readable, and imaginative way, she persists while documenting the minefields of racism and sexism. Joseph finds joy in the most unlikely of places, and in Lexicon, her adoration for the written word lets us see those places in sharp and evocative relief. All hail this bounty, this Lexicon!

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