Ghost in a Red Hat : Poems by Rosanna Warren (2011, Hardcover)

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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393080064
ISBN-139780393080063
eBay Product ID (ePID)84369818

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Book TitleGhost in a Red Hat : Poems
Number of Pages107 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General
Publication Year2011
GenrePoetry
AuthorRosanna Warren
FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.7 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-038780
Reviews"An important poet . . . beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets." -- Harold Bloom "Arrestingly plainspoken, within the shimmering shapes she devises. . . . The bitter taste of that word 'expertise' conjures the sweet experiences and sensations this book often celebrates (or whose absence it laments). . . . This book represents a significant contribution to the national imaginary." -- Dan Chiasson (New York Review of Books)
Synopsisfrom "Mediterranean" There was something I wanted to say, at the age of twelve, some question she hadn't answered, and yesterday, so clearly seeing her pace before me it rose again to the tip of my tongue, and the mystery was not that she walked there, ten years after her death, but that she vanished, and let twilight take her place-, "An important poet . . . beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets."--Harold Bloom, In her fifth book of poetry, Rosanna Warren explores the political and the personal through myth, history, elegy, and erotic lyric. Starting from a childhood memory of her mother, the poems contemplate wreckage and sorrow in family life, in Hurricane Katrina, and in the Trojan War, but also moments of eerie blessing. from "Mediterranean" There was something I wanted to say, at the age of twelve, some question she hadn't answered, and yesterday, so clearly seeing her pace before me it rose again to the tip of my tongue, and the mystery was not that she walked there, ten years after her death, but that she vanished, and let twilight take her place-
LC Classification NumberPS3573.A7793G56 2011

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