Spilled and gone / Jessica Greenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenbaum, Jessica, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

American poetry. -- lat

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 70 pages).

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

Summary:

Spilled and Gone, Jessica Greenbaum's third collection marries the world through metaphor so that a serrated knife on its back is as harmless as "the ocean on a shiny day, " and two crossed daisies in Emily Dickinson's herbarium "might double as the logo /for a roving band of pacifists."At heart, the poems themselves seek peace through close observation's associative power to reveal cohering relationships and meaning within the 21st century-and during its dark turn. In the everyday tally of "the good against the violence" the speaker asks, "why can't the line around the block on the free night/ at the museum stand for everything, why can't the shriek /of the girls in summer waves... / be the call and response of all people living on the earth?" A descendant of the New York school and the second wave, Greenbaum "spills" details that she simultaneously replaces-through the spiraling revelations only poems with an authentic life-force of humanism can nurture.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822986584

0822986582