Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes / Cheryl Dumesnil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumesnil, Cheryl, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 pages)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]

Summary:

The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake. The shadows here are many--cancer, poverty, a lost love, famine, suicide, war, an ever-encroaching existential angst. But so are the saving graces--a drag queen waitress whose "painted-on eyebrows arched like a bridge / toward starlight," "strawberries / grown fat around dimpled gold seeds," Pink Floyd's "'On the Turning Away' sent through my car / radio like the ghost voice of a beloved long dead," black phoebes rattling "winter / thistles, swollen throats percussing: / this is this is this is... " Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes reminds us that where there is shadow there must, necessarily, also be light.

Contents:

Good morning heartache

At the reunion of lost memories

The heart has four chambers

That I could keep you like this

The acrobats of Pittsburgh.

Notes:

Poems.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822982005

0822982005

OCLC:

961116333