The life / Carrie Fountain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fountain, Carrie, author.

Series:

Penguin poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 89 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Penguin Books, [2021]

Summary:

"An acclaimed poet deepens her exploration of the domestic in a new collection of playful, wise, and humorous poems The poems in Carrie Fountain's third collection, The Life, exist somewhere, as Rilke says, between "our daily life" and "the great work"--an interstitial space where sidelong glances live alongside shouts to heaven. In elegant, colloquial language, Fountain observes her children dressing themselves in fledgling layers of personhood, creating their own private worlds and personalities, and makes room for genuine marvels in the midst of routine. Attuned to the delicate, fleeting moments that together comprise a life, these poems offer a guide by which to navigate the signs and symbols, and to pilot if not the perfect life, the only life, the life we are given"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. The End

The Life

Poem On The Inside

Cold

The Beast Is Coming

After The Ascension

One Way

First

How Has Motherhood Changed The Way You Write?

The Parable Of The Gifts

The Student

Masha Eventually

Poem Made Of Revisions

Self-Help

The Answer

The Jungle

II. Poem With A Dream Of The Future In It

Short Poem With Insomnia

Summertime

Poem Making Change

Poem Without An Image

Will You?

The Question Of Your Youth

Domestic Aubade

How To Have A Happy Marriage

Lullaby After Bedtime

Poem With Our Marriage In It

Nothing Is Holy

Time To Be The Fine Line Of Light

Try Me

My Own American Poem

Poem From A Hotel Room On Christmas Morning

To White Noise

The Voice.

Other Format:

Online version: Fountain, Carrie, The life

ISBN:

9780143136019

0143136011

OCLC:

1191163758