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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Long Coordinates

Long Coordinates

de Villier, Christina

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0899241794
ISBN13: 9780899241791
Publisher: Lynx House Press
Published: May 1 2021
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.43
Language: English

Christina de Villier's Long Coordinates is an old-time book of mountain tunes, of blues, of songs sung by a soul deeply enmeshed in place and trying to reckon love and all its complications. The language here is keen-edged and playful, breathtaking at times, and de Villier's sharp, even gaze lights in one moment on 'rare pears' and 'the golden mare drink[ing] / from a trough, ' then 'styrofoam & leafblowers & greed & sports / utility vehicles & traps & rape & drones' the next. Long Coordinates is an extraordinary debut. As the poet writes, 'I'm mad for it // whole person mouth wide open.'--Joe Wilkins, author of Fall Back Down When I Die and Thieve

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