Metamorphosis - Couverture souple

Jacob Oet

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1936715198 ISBN 13 : 9781936715190

Editeur : Kattywompus Press, 2012

Synopsis

“Have you been bountiful?” Jacob Oet asks in one of the startlingly precocious moments in Metamorphosis, a question that all of us should be asking ourselves as we look back over our lives. Metamorphosis wonderfully captures a young poet on the brink of transformation, in all his eagerness and trepidation as he looks to wake into what Oet brilliantly calls a “distinctly personal adjective.” The most Oetsian poems in this collection evoke the delicate beauty of opening into a new life while reminding us of the painful irrevocability of change: “It’s impossible to pop the wings back in after they’ve grown.” I, for one, am grateful this young poet can’t pop his wings back in. -- Jason Koo, author, MAN ON AN EXTREMELY SMALL ISLAND, winner of 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize

This is the uncannily mature work of a poet whose youth lends freshness and urgency to his fine perceptions. Tacking between the everyday and timebound (“I waste a winter on the internet”) and larger concerns, the poems display wit and depth and the promise of great things to come. -- Dana Goodyear, author, HONEY AND JUNK; staff writer, The New Yorker

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kattywompus Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936715198
• ISBN 13: 9781936715190
• Reliure: Paperback
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 39
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• Personne responsable: non disponible