Small hours / Ilyse Kusnetz ; cover art, Remedios Varo ; cover design, Teresa Wheeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kusnetz, Ilyse, 1966-2016, author.

Contributor:

Varo, Remedios, artist.

Wheeler, Teresa, cover designer.

Series:

New odyssey series.

New Odyssey Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Place of Publication:

Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By turns poignant and hopeful, raging and joyful, "Small Hours" interweaves the personal and the political, connecting family history to moments within a larger historical arc of injustice and oppression. The poems in this collection bear witness to those whose stories have fallen into the fractures of history and been lost, their "mouths opening / below earth, their bodies / burning like forbidden books", about whom "we know almost nothing". These poems ask us to recall the tyrants of the past as similar abuses of power repeat themselves in the present. Forgiveness and understanding vie with the memory of events that can never be redressed, only remembered, and sometimes redeemed.

Contents:

""Bridget Hitler's Memoirs�""""Hitler's Mandrake""; ""Enola Gay""; ""The Birth of Godzilla""; ""At the Yushukan War Memorial�""; ""3""; """"Jesus Has Risen""""; ""Letter to Scientists""; ""Before I Am Downloaded�""; ""Torture""; ""Blue Amber""; ""Hideyoshi Recalls for His Concubine�""; ""The Emperor Commodus""; ""The Sultan's Dwarves""; ""Classified""; ""Marie Antoinette's Beech Tree""; ""Anthem""; ""A Tale of Two Cities, Redux""; ""4""; ""A Hampshire Field at Sunset""; ""A Cure for Plague""; ""Athanor""; ""Still Life""; ""A Brief History of the Calendar""; ""Twilight""

""Buddha""s Garden""""Love Poem""; ""At the Capela dos Ossos""; ""Swedenborg's Skull""; ""L'Annunziazione""; ""Ideal City, Dream Sequence""; ""Woman in a Hammock, 1916""; ""The Master of Busseto""; ""Galileo's Finger""; ""Hands""; ""Gift Horse""; ""Holding Albert Einstein's Hand""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61248-129-9