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Double effect : poems / Martha Serpas.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.E77 D68 2020
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Serpas, Martha, author.
- Series:
- Barataria poetry
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 73 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Martha Serpas's "Double Effect" reimagines Saint Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of that name, which governs whether an action is morally permissible despite a foreseeable evil result. In lush verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can result from destructive situations, encompassing ecological devastation, maternal deprivation, spiritual poverty, and mania. Time in this collection is kept by the feast days, hurricanes, celebrations, accidents, and rescues along southern Louisiana's disappearing bayous and eroding coasts. In the end, the question remains: Is there a good that can redeem suffering and loss?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Contrition
- The Deuce Makes Itself
- Good, Bad, Or Indifferent
- Betsy: A Mandatory Evacuation
- Original Sleep
- Pelican dans sa Piete
- Mother Tongue
- Patriarchy
- Double Effect: St. Joseph's Altar, March 19
- Voluntary
- Changeable Letters on the Jet Drive-in Marquee
- Local Gods
- Saturday Afternoon Confessional
- Apostrophe
- Mitzpah
- Tree Frog
- La Porte d'en Arriere
- Just Call Me Beb
- The Means
- The Landscape Is the Language
- Fallacy
- Diagramming the Live Oak
- A Ghost Story Recanted
- Oleander Avenue 1927
- Back Like It Was
- Generation
- Are You My Mother?
- Yachtzee
- I'm Tending a Bit toward Living These Days
- In Praise of the Unremembered
- Compassion Requires I Imagine I'm Something Else
- Doxology
- Compensation
- To the Tripmaster
- My Lot
- Nee - Decede
- The Comatose Have No Thermostat
- Irrigation
- On the Green Banana Leaf
- Mosquito Truck
- Flat Water
- I No Longer Have the Moon
- Double Effect: December 31
- There Was No One Thing in the World That She Desired.
- Notes:
- "Winner of the L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award for 2020"
- "LSU Press Paperback Original"--Title page verso.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Serpas, Martha, Double effect
- ISBN:
- 9780807172759
- 0807172758
- OCLC:
- 1129392040
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