Four-Legged Girl: Poems Contributor(s): Seuss, Diane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555977227 ISBN-13: 9781555977221 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica - Poetry | Women Authors |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2015939976 |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 7" W x 9" (0.30 lbs) 88 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Holiday - Valentine's Day |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry "Diane Seuss writes with the intensity of a soothsayer." --Laura Kasischke For, having imagined your body one way I found it to be another way, it was yielding, In Diane Seuss's Four-Legged Girl, her audacious, hothouse language swerves into pain and rapture, as she recounts a life lived at the edges of containment. Ghostly, sexy, and plaintive, these poems skip to the tune of a jump rope, fill a wishing well with desire and other trinkets, and they remember past lush lives in New York City, in rural Michigan, and in love. In the final poem, she sings of the four-legged girl, the body made strange to itself and to others. This collection establishes Seuss's poetic voice, as rich and emotional as any in contemporary poetry. |