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ancestral and local memory
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borderland identity work
borderline comic despair
borderline mystical language
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creative resilience in hardship
dark humor and pathos
defiant self-invention
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earthy metaphoric richness
ecstatic domestic danger
edge-of-town mythmaking
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existential Midwestern memoirry
feral imagination unleashed
fractured family narratives
gritty regional imagery
hardscrabble prayer and song
hardship-born tenderness
iconoclastic spiritual voice
intense interior monologue
intense sensory landscapes
language of hammered beauty
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liminal landscape poems
liminal spaces between words
memory as salvage now
midwestern gothic intimacy
Midwestern poetics reimagined
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poetic acts of resurrection
portraiture of small violences
poverty and stubborn hope
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radio and quotidian memory
raw emotional excavation
rebellious feminine lyric
rituals of ordinary endurance
rural elegy and grit
rural survival aesthetics
Rust Belt lyric voice
sacred and profane lyric
salvaged beauty from ruin
seasonal and water imagery
sexual and moral reckoning
small-town elegiac scenes
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suburban and rural collision
tenderness amid violence
tough tenderness
trauma-to-beauty poetics
unflinching moral vision
unsparing portraiture of desire
vernacular ritual and prayer
vernacular spiritual strain
visceral embodied language
wildness as creative fuel
wounded beauty meditation
Product details
- ISBN 9781558498259
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 178 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2010
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Diane Seuss's poems grow out of the fertile soil of southwest Michigan, bursting any and all stereotypes of the Midwest and turning loose characters worthy of Faulkner in their obsession, their suffering, their dramas of love and sex and death. The first section of this collection pays homage to the poet's roots in a place where the world hands you nothing and promises less, so you are left to invent yourself or disappear. From there these poems both recount and embody repeated acts of defiant self-creation in the face of despair, loss, and shame, and always in the shadow of annihilation.
With darkly raucous humor and wrenching pathos, Seuss burrows furiously into liminal places of no dimension - state lines, lakes' edges, the space ""between the m and the e in the word amen."" From what she calls ""this place inbetween"" come profane prayers in which ""the sound of hope and the sound of suffering"" are revealed to be ""the same music played on the same instrument.""
Midway through this book, a man tells the speaker that beauty is that which has not been touched. This collection is a righteous and fierce counterargument: in the world of this imagination, beauty spills from that which has been crushed, torn, and harrowed. ""We receive beauty,"" Seuss writes, ""as a nail receives / the hammer blow."" This is the poetry that comes only after the white dress has been blown open - the poetry of necessity, where a wild imagination is the only hope.
With darkly raucous humor and wrenching pathos, Seuss burrows furiously into liminal places of no dimension - state lines, lakes' edges, the space ""between the m and the e in the word amen."" From what she calls ""this place inbetween"" come profane prayers in which ""the sound of hope and the sound of suffering"" are revealed to be ""the same music played on the same instrument.""
Midway through this book, a man tells the speaker that beauty is that which has not been touched. This collection is a righteous and fierce counterargument: in the world of this imagination, beauty spills from that which has been crushed, torn, and harrowed. ""We receive beauty,"" Seuss writes, ""as a nail receives / the hammer blow."" This is the poetry that comes only after the white dress has been blown open - the poetry of necessity, where a wild imagination is the only hope.
Diane Seuss is writer-in-residence at Kalamazoo College, USA. Her first poetry collection, It Blows You Hollow, was published in 1998 by New Issues Press. Her poems have been published in several anthologies and in many literary magazines, including Poetry, New Orleans Review, North American Review, and The Georgia Review.
