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About the dead / poems by Travis Mossotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mossotti, Travis.
- Series:
- May Swenson Poetry Award series ; v. 15.
- May Swenson Poetry Award series ; v. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (90 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Travis Mossotti writes with humor, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: "ask him to put into words what that sinking is, / that shudder in his chest, as he notices / the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth." But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic portraits of hard-used saints. His vision is clear, as clear as the memory
- Contents:
- Decampment; One: Country of Forgotten Languages; Two: About the Dead; Three: As Broken in the End; Acknowledgments; About the Author; The May Swenson Poetry Award
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613250209
- 9780874218282
- 0874218284
- 9781283250207
- 1283250209
- OCLC:
- 743693307
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