20th century poetry
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Author_Karen Garthe
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frayed escort
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520273160
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 2012
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov cocktail. A master of radical invention, Garthe combines brio of conception with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language to new life from the inside at breakneck speed. "The Banjo Clock", her second collection, cultivates a luxuriant sensibility even as it interrupts poetic continuity with cuts, ironies, sharp wit, and wild recklessness. In poems that consider poetry itself, Garthe writes about preparing the medium, the ink, "the motion of new utility". She then turns to America's psychic maladies and the need to rehabilitate our democracy, now floundering in the glare of TV's blue depressive light.
Karen Garthe is the author of Frayed escort, which won the 2005 Colorado Prize.
