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Odessa

Odessa

Kirkpatrick, Patricia

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Series: Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1571314563
ISBN13: 9781571314567
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Dec 11 2012
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Minnesota Book Award

WINNER OF THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD

A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Patricia Kirkpatrick's Odessa--selected by Peter Campion as the winner of the 2012 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry--fighting for her life.

The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the emotional core of the self, central to the process of memory. And so a dreamlike reality emerges from these poems, emotionally charged but void of sentimentality. Kirkpatrick's Odessa, roof of the underworld, is a refuge at once real and imagined, resembling simultaneously the Midwestern prairie and a god-inhabited city. We see a field filled with unidentifiable birds and the unknowable. A post-surgery body that can be broken / like a piece of bread. Ceres and Hades locked in a custody battle for Persephone--and Persephone's fruit, the color of bloodstain.

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