California (Stahlecker Selections)
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California (Stahlecker Selections)
- Thoughts echoed in poems: Long lines, short lines mirror our minds' tangents and fragments
- Recurring images: Speakers' fixation on nature, California's allure becomes a sanity test
- Speaker's yearning: Not for California, but an imaginative escape
- Search for meaning: Speakers strive to find significance, despite frequent failures
- Collection's maze: Blurred lines between dummy and ventriloquist, state and State, in a whirl of language and imagination
Simultaneously sad and funny, Jennifer Denrow’s California, explores the obsessive nature of humanity while calling into question how we create our own realities. Using image repetition as a tool to emphasize obsessions, Denrow’s narrators range from a woman fixated on California to a ventriloquist and his dummy that instructs “You’re allowed to move your lips. / I will teach you to become human…†These are poems occupied with imagination, and how we use our imagination to navigate our worlds.
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Country
USA
Brand
Four Way Books
Manufacturer
Four Way Books
Binding
Paperback
UnitCount
1
EANs
9781935536086
