About the Dead - Couverture rigide

Mossotti, Travis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0874218268 ISBN 13 : 9780874218268

Editeur : Utah State University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Travis Mossotti writes with humor, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: &;ask him to put into words what that sinking is, / that shudder in his chest, as he notices / the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth.&; But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic portraits of hard-used saints. His vision is clear, as clear as the memory of how scarecrows in the rearview, &;each of them, stuffed / into a body they didn&;t choose, resembled / your own plight.&; His poetry embraces unsanctimonious life with all its wonder, its levity, and clumsiness. About the Dead is an accomplished collection by a writer in control of a wide range of experience, and it speaks to the heart of any reader willing to catch his &;drift, and ride it like the billowed / end of some cockamamie parachute all the way / back to the soft, dysfunctional, waiting earth.&;

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Travis Mossotti writes with humour, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: "ask him to put into words what that sinking is, - that shudder in his chest, as he notices - the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth." But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic portraits of hard-used saints. His vision is clear, as clear as the memory of how scarecrows in the rear view, "each of them, stuffed - into a body they didn't choose, resembled - your own plight." His poetry embraces unsanctimonious life with all its wonder, its levity, and clumsiness. About the Dead is an accomplished collection by a writer in control of a wide range of experience, and it speaks to the heart of any reader willing to catch his "drift, and ride it like the billowed - end of some cockamamie parachute all the way - back to the soft, dysfunctional, waiting earth."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Utah State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874218268
• ISBN 13: 9780874218268
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 69
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible