Misery prefigured [electronic resource] / J. Allyn Rosser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosser, J. Allyn (Jill Allyn), 1957-

Series:

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffering--Poetry.

Suffering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In her second collection of poems, J. Allyn Rosser explores the human condition in all its gloriously valiant pathos. Misery Prefigured dwells on our continual reinventions of self and world and the restless dynamic that vibrates between them.Whether contemplating a failed marriage, a visit from God, or a pearl dropped into a bottle of Prell shampoo, Rosser's wry yet impassioned eye looks hard for a habitable and abiding truth. Alternating between deadpan and dead serious, these poems are often darkly funny, exposing the contradictions inherent in every desire. Misery P

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One; Sole Blessing; Square Dance, Fourth Grade; Resurfaced; Voodoo That You Do; Quest of the Prell; Deep Pond at Dusk in Heavy Rain Against Pines; The Sum Contradiction of Our Shades; Composite; Renouncing the Tower; Part Two; Coming Your Way; Song; Suburban Report; Eschatology of the Lexicon; Decreator; Much Later; You Are Here ; Patience Is a Virtue; Phase 3: Final Interview, a Few Last Questions; Reading at the Y; Part Three; Heart to India; Second Story, Old Snow; Rods and R.; Missing Person; The Next Stop Stopping

Lover Release AgreementLate Elvis; Beckett Dead Imagine; Buffalo Bayou; Password; Delayed Response; Part Four; The Cry; North Jersey Farmland, Vile Mood; Before the Sickness Is Official; Realism; Late Letter; Raven; Sugar Dada; Sea and Rain; The Brain of the World; Other books in this series; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8093-9019-1

1-299-05070-0

OCLC:

856870371