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On the desire to levitate : poems / Alison Powell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, Alison.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry, Modern--20th century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (66 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adolescent girls as mythical adventurers moving within a beloved but confining Midwest. Yet in Powell's skillful hands, hardship never overtakes: as judge Charles Hood writes, "There's often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity.""-- Provided by publisher.
- "On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adolescent girls as mythical adventurers moving within a beloved but confining Midwest. Yet in Powell's skillful hands, hardship never overtakes: as judge Charles Hood writes, "There's often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity." Winner of the 2013 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- On the Desire to Levitate
- I.
- Elegy for the Miner's Canary
- Flyover Country
- Summer
- Hiding and the Desire to Be Found
- Eminence
- Shangri-La
- Who Knew the Water
- Rogers Road
- Visitor
- In Your Teeth
- Animals
- II.
- The Fields
- Hylas
- The Murderer's Reverie
- Hercules Reflects on Victory
- Eurydice
- Orpheus
- The Fall
- After Paradise Lost
- III.
- Imagining Heaven
- Darling, at the Inn
- Decorum: A Study
- Elegy
- The Attic
- Edema
- Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1983
- Florida
- Lesson.
- Notes:
- "Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize"--Cover.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780821444917
- 0821444913
- OCLC:
- 872273582
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