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Immortal Sofa
University of Illinois Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-252-07580-3 | Cloth: 978-0-252-03308-7 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09254-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3569.T3337I46 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In accessible poems full of rich detail and painterly images, Maura Stanton looks under the surface of the ordinary, hoping to find the magic spark below the visible. In poems both humorous and elegaic, she gathers strange facts, odd events, and overlooked stories to construct her own vision of immortality, one made up of fragments of history and geography and the illusions of yearning human beings. From elephants in Ceylon to Nazi prisoners in Ireland, from Beowulf to Jane Austen, from sonnets to prose poems to blank verse, Immortal Sofa conjures our complex existence in all its sorrowful but astonishing variety. |
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Immortal Sofa
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Illinois Press, 2008
Paper: 978-0-252-07580-3
Cloth: 978-0-252-03308-7
eISBN: 978-0-252-09254-1
Paper: 978-0-252-07580-3
Cloth: 978-0-252-03308-7
eISBN: 978-0-252-09254-1
In accessible poems full of rich detail and painterly images, Maura Stanton looks under the surface of the ordinary, hoping to find the magic spark below the visible. In poems both humorous and elegaic, she gathers strange facts, odd events, and overlooked stories to construct her own vision of immortality, one made up of fragments of history and geography and the illusions of yearning human beings. From elephants in Ceylon to Nazi prisoners in Ireland, from Beowulf to Jane Austen, from sonnets to prose poems to blank verse, Immortal Sofa conjures our complex existence in all its sorrowful but astonishing variety.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
