Fool in a blue house : poems / Katherine Gaffney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaffney, Katherine, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

80 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

TAMPA : UNIV OF TAMPA PRESS, 2024.

Tampa, FL : The University of Tampa Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Fool in a Blue House crafts carefully appointed rooms, both interior and exterior, alongside familial and romantic love, loss and near loss of beloveds, selves, and even neighborhood rabbits. Dwelling in contradictions-strength and fragility, humor and heartbreak, safety and threat-this book ponders impossibilities as solutions to its own predicaments, "Perhaps it would be easier to write in a chorus." But these poems know that this is not the cure. These impossibilities are simply "a whole herring" dropped down a throat, a momentary pause before we dare "to defy what the sky tells us" and instead begin to tell "ourselves that we can will the sky to give.""--Publisher's website.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781597321976

1597321974

9781597321983

1597321982

OCLC:

1422575976

Publisher Number:

99996100526