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Magnificent Errors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luna, Sheryl.
- Series:
- Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry Series
- The Ernest Sandeen prize in poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kindness-Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (88 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with Pity the Drowned Horses, which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of reference in and around El Paso, Texas. Now with the poems in Magnificent Errors, Luna's third collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, Luna turns her gaze toward people living on the margins-whether it be cultural, socioeconomic, psychological, or personal-and celebrates their ability to recover and thrive. Luna reveals that individuals who suffer and experience injustice are often lovely and awe inspiring. Her poems reflect on immigrants in a detention camp, a meth addict, a homeless individual, and someone on food stamps. She explores the voices of people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or PTSD, poets, visual artists, and people living in a mental health community setting. The author's own journey to recovery from childhood abuse and mental illness also illuminates how healing is possible. The poems in Magnificent Errors are lyrical, narrative, and often highly personal, exploring what it means to be the "other" and how to cope with difference and illness. They venerate characters who overcome difficulties including ostracism and degradation. People who live outside of the mainstream in poverty are survivors, and showing their experience teaches us compassion and kindness. Ideas of art, culture, and recovery flow throughout the poems, exploring artistic creativity as a means of redemption. With language that is fresh and surprising, Sheryl Luna shares these remarkable poems that bring a reader into the experiences of marginalization and offer hope that grace and restoration do indeed follow."-- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I
- Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps
- The Vocation
- The Thief
- Change
- Tornillo's Tent Prison for Migrant Children
- Salt Shaker
- Meditation on Hunger
- Breathing the Border's Fire
- The Poet
- Autumn's Art
- Forehead
- regeneration
- What I'd Say If I Had Fifteen Minutes of Fame
- II
- Shock and Awe
- Neighbors Smoke on an Apartment Porch Owned by a Mental Health Agency
- Secret Missionary for the Virgin Mary Off His Meds
- The Sailing Bicycle
- Shock Treatment
- Lit
- Lamentation to Praise
- The Language of Drowning
- The Star Song
- To Rest
- The Leaves
- Manic with Depression
- Eccentric
- A Homeless Poet Friend Rages at the World's Lesser People
- The Party
- Adopting Stepfather
- Alone
- Voice
- Figures
- Anxiety and Diagnosis
- The Artist Addressing Violence
- The Singer
- She Wishes She Never Had
- IQ Over 160?
- The Prayer
- III
- Night
- Rubbernecking
- Listening to Sky
- Risk
- The Laugh
- We Believe in Kindness Because It's Hard to Die
- Casualties
- The Witness
- The Hummingbird
- Clouds and Sapling
- Prayer for This Clay Earth
- Mud
- Finding Water
- The Transgression.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780268201807
- 0268201803
- 9780268201838
- 0268201838
- OCLC:
- 1292426109
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