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The blues of heaven : poems / Barbara Ras.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.A637 B59 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ras, Barbara, author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Women authors--Poetry.
- Women authors.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 70 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "In The Blues of Heaven, Barbara Ras delivers her characteristic subjects with new daring that both rattles and beguiles. Here are poems of grief over her brother's death; doors to an idiosyncratic working-class childhood among Polish immigrants; laments for nature and politics out of kilter. Ras portrays the climate crisis, guns out of control, the reckless injustice and ignorance of the United States government. At the same time, her poems nimbly focus on particulars-these facts, these consequences-bringing the wreckage of unfathomable harm home with immediacy and integrity. Though her subjects may be dire, Ras also weaves her wise humor throughout, moving deftly from sardonic to whimsical to create an expansive, ardent, and memorable book."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Salad Days
- Take a Chance
- Tuesday
- Atonement
- Flags
- Survival Strategies
- Feathers
- With a Small Flashlight
- Balance
- Waves
- Even Birds Leave the World
- I Want to Know
- After Decades First Love Resembles Fruit
- Dragonflies
- The Day a Crucial Button Fell Off My Blouse
- Herd
- II. Stars
- My Cloak of Not Knowing
- Tethers
- Swans
- The Money Coat
- Recipe for Sleep
- Swimming
- Brushes with Death
- The Omnipresent Dark Curse
- Odds
- Lizard Blues
- Not a Jelly Bean
- Castelluccio
- Ranch Time
- III. Potatoes
- Opportunity Costs
- In the Last Storm I Tried to Write the History of Secrets
- Slow Starting Rant
- A Day in the Park
- Honeymoons
- Bugs Pray
- Relics
- L'Heure bleu
- What Light Tastes Like
- Debt
- My Big Dream
- Sole
- Even If
- The Ancestral Spirit Chair Counsels Whoever Sits in It
- My Daughter's Daughter.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from cover.
- ISBN:
- 0822966549
- 9780822966548
- OCLC:
- 1152444116
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