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Parallel Play: Poems

Parallel Play: Poems

Burt, Stephanie

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 1555974376
ISBN13: 9781555974374
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Jan 24 2006
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt

Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again,
Though it was all they had taught you.
--from Like a Wreck

Consult any childhood development guide and you'll find the term parallel play when children under two are placed together, they'll play separately but won't interact. They are more fascinated with their immediate surroundings than with each other.

Stephen Burt's second collection of poems, Parallel Play, describes lovers, friends, travelers, and revelers attempting lives dependent on each other but still pulled inevitably into preoccupations of their own self-awareness. When there are many obstacles--overeducation, narcissism, extended adolescence, nomadic existence--how can Americans crawl out of the nursery and coexist if they increasingly have to learn to do so as adults?

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