The Animals All Are Gathering
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Published:10th Sep '10
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Winner of the 2009 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry
A collection of lyric poems that address issues of death and personal crisis by filtering them through an obsession with monsters and animals.
Winner of the 2009 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry A collection of lyric poems that address issues of death and personal crisis by filtering them through an obsession with monsters and animals.
Winner of the 2009 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry
These poems address issues of death and personal crisis by filtering them through an obsession with monsters and animals. After an initial loss, the speaker of these poems tries to utilize different personae—monsters, people stuck in horror movies—before turning his attention to the dreamlike animals that stalk him. Eventually, the speaker tries to resolve the conflicts among the figures by creating a cobbled-together garden in which they can coexist.
In this original and wonderfully energetic book, Bradley Paul moves from humor to mockery to play to anger to grief, and sometimes all at once. This poetry shifts, it slams, it hammers, it thinks; it corrodes our sorrow and foolishness; it captures our national haplessness, sad and firing and still.
* Jean Valentine *This is a book of 'Instructions,' a 'How to' book, a 'Guide' to the anarchic carnival of everyday life. It is a wicked book smelling of 'scrapple' and the 'puke of poetry.' And yet rising out of the bile is something else—call it a love for words and poetry—that can gleefully announce that 'a monkey could write this poem.' Read this book and you will learn 'how to stop your doppelgŠnger from plagiarizing you,' which is exactly what you need to know to live in the twenty-first century.
* John Y- Winner of Donald Hall Prize in Poetry 2009
ISBN: 9780822961215
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96 pages