| Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr Contributor(s): West, Marlys (Author) |
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ISBN: 1884836550 ISBN-13: 9781884836558 Publisher: University of Akron Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 99031368 |
| Series: Akron Series in Poetry (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr, Marlys West takes a coolly amused look at what we create of ourselves: our habits of home and mind, the prosthetics and courtesies, the small timid gestures and screaming leaps that make up our lives and deaths. Influenced by such diverse things as summer vacations, the plight of Satan and the saints, and a love of American speech, these poems suggest a loose narrative within a stream of wry images and wayward mythologies. Father smokes, mother rolls her eyes, the devil goes for a swim -- all in a world of odd rituals, dangerous waters, lucky charms, and the spasmodic braveries of the everyday. |
