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Mere Mortals: Poems

Mere Mortals: Poems

Svoboda, Terese

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0820334243
ISBN13: 9780820334240
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
All of the medical, technological, and psychological advances of the twentieth century challenge mere mortals in Terese Svoboda's third book of poetry. In Faust, a mini-epic in five acts, the eponymous character of literary legend appears in the form of a woman, who redefines what being mortal means in light of the politics of the Third World, and gender. In contrast Ptolemy's Rules for High School Reunions explores what happens when you do without a pact with the devil. The gods--Greek and otherwise--also make appearances as a TV announcer in Philomela, in the basement with the plumber in The Smell of Burning Pennies, and in the dyslexic confusion between Dog/God. But it is not only the divine that charges the poems in Mere Mortals--sex also suffuses and reinvents key relationships. Readers of such wittily probing poems as The Root of Father is Fat and Brassiere: Prison or Showcase? will know why Philip Levine has described Svoboda as one light-year from being the polite, loverly, workshop poet. Mere Mortals poems first appeared in such magazines as the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Paris Review, and the American Poetry Review.

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