| About the Dead: Volume 15 Contributor(s): Mossotti, Travis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0874218276 ISBN-13: 9780874218275 Publisher: Utah State University Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2011018018 |
| Series: May Swenson Poetry Awards |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.25 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Travis Mossotti writes with humor, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: \u201cask him to put into words what that sinking is, / that shudder in his chest, as he notices / the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth.\u201d But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic portraits of hard-used saints. His vision is clear, as clear as the memory of how scarecrows in the rearview, \u201ceach of them, stuffed / into a body they didn't choose, resembled / your own plight.\u201d His poetry embraces unsanctimonious life with all its wonder, its levity, and clumsiness. About the Dead is an accomplished collection by a writer in control of a wide range of experience, and it speaks to the heart of any reader willing to catch his \u201cdrift, and ride it like the billowed / end of some cockamamie parachute all the way / back to the soft, dysfunctional, waiting earth.\u201d |