Black Aperture: Poems

Name: Black Aperture: Poems
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ISBN: 9780807150863

ISBN-10: 080715086X

ISBN-13: 9780807150863

Edition: 2013

Authors: Matt Rasmussen

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In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother s suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In Outgoing, the speaker erases his brother s answering machine message to save his family from the shame of dead you / answering calls. In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, a flower / of smoldering filaments. A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, a tinfoil lake, vegetables / dying in the crisper. Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning: damage and healing, sorrow and laughter, and torment balanced with…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 72
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English