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In the Permanent Collection [electronic resource] / by Stefanie Wortman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wortman, Stefanie, author.
- Series:
- Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 21.
- Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 21
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (78 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Trying to make sense of a disordered world, Stefanie Wortman's debut collection examines works of art as varied as casts of antique sculpture, 19th-century novels, and even scenes from reality television to investigate the versions of order that they offer. These deft poems yield moments of surprising levity even as they mount a sharp critique of human folly. ""These poems seem haunted by a mostly nameless melancholia. In The Permanent Collection, however, turns its grim geography of prisons, mortuaries, and tawdry suburbs into something close to classical elegy. 'In sunken rooms,' Wortman wr
- Contents:
- Reform, Missouri
- Blind king
- New Orleans
- Low definition
- Everyone was dead and I went on, drunk
- The general
- Weed guide
- Careless simile
- Vaudeville
- Strip mall
- Long occupation
- Twelve bar blues
- Recovery coffee
- Sibling Gothic
- The transparent fabulist
- There's something quieter than sleep
- Family plot
- Permanent collection
- Tell me about the fates
- You're in the picture
- Mortuary art
- To my heart
- The zombie
- Cavebunny
- Tennessee Williams
- Surrender
- To a friend, on living alone
- Spring
- A story about show business
- Star chart
- Assez vu
- Sleeping song
- Lucky
- Dance of death
- Likeness
- Compact mirror
- Sight gags
- Reasons for living happily
- Medallion
- The gallow ball (1950)
- Spiritual exercises.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-57441-564-6
- OCLC:
- 881256022
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