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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Mummer Prisoner Scavenger Thief

Mummer Prisoner Scavenger Thief

Ransick, Chris

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1942280637
ISBN13: 9781942280637
Publisher: Conundrum Press
Published: May 15 2019
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
mummer: a person acting in a masked mimeprisoner: a person trapped by a set of circumstancesscavenger: a person who collects abandoned itemsthief: a person who takes things by stealth, without force or violenceThis collection begins in the realm of the mummer whose masked performance conceals the self and transforms language to better evoke what is too risky to speak overtly. Ransick's poems ply this tension between knowing and speaking in cadence and imagery that simultaneously disorients readers and beckons them forward, in lines whose half-remembered music refuses to be predictable. The role of the shunned figures in the title is to draw poems out from the margins of experience, to reclaim voices muted by more powerful forces, an elusive goal only the best poetry can accomplish. Travel along with them as guides, ready to steal and scavenge what you need for your own escape.

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