The unrequited : poems / Carrie St. George Comer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comer, Carrie St. George, 1971-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 84 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [2003]

Summary:

"Comer's rhythms authenticate what she asserts. Page after page, the recognizably real and the imaginative flirt with and complement one another. . . ." -- From the Foreword by Stephen Dunn

In "The Unrequited "Comer takes up and invigorates the line of American poetry called the "lyric surreal." The late poet James Wright was master of this mode, and Comer has a peculiarly American combination of humor and wild invention.

"Carrie St. George Comer" received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, where she was awarded the Academy of American Poets prize and taught at Phillips Academy in Andover. She currently lives in Miami, Florida. "The Unrequited is the sixty-first title to be published by Sarabande Books, a nonprofit literary press headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1994 to publish poetry and short fiction, Sarabande's mission is to disburse these works with diligence and integrity, and to serve as an educational resource to teachers and students of creative writing. Since the 1996 debut of the press, our titles have received positive review attentions from nationally distinguished media including "The New York Times Book Review, "Publisher's Weekly, "Kirkus Reviews, "American Book Review, "Small Press, "The Nation, and "Library Journal.

Contents:

The Difference Between This Moment and the Next 3

Under Your Hat 5

Vespers 6

Get Outta Town 7

Arbor 8

Local Art 11

Don't Let Me Forget You 13

Tongues 14

A Note from Olive Lane 18

Weakness #1: The Barber 20

Noiseless and Small 21

Wine 22

Storm 23

Phone Call from China 25

Miami in September 28

On the Day of Your Arrival 30

Inklings 31

Somewhere Between Here and China 35

Weakness #2: The Barber 39

Circles 40

Late Afternoon July 42

A Night in the Village 44

Even Donkeys 46

Crowscrowscrows 50

The Iris of the Pig 53

La Reforma 56

Three Days Before 60

The Primitive Model 73

Shelburne Falls 76

Long Goodbye 80

The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry 84.

Notes:

"Winner of the 2002 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry."

ISBN:

1889330949

1889330957

OCLC:

51003945