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Bone Map Poems

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ISBN-10: 1571314695

ISBN-13: 9781571314697

Edition: 2014

Authors: Martha Collins

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Description:

Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection, Bone Map (2013 National Poetry Series Winner), pulls shards of tenderness from a world where violence infuses the body, landscape, and dreams: a handful of blackberries gathered from bloodied arms, bee stings likened to pulses of sunlight, a honeycomb of marrow. "All moments will shine if you let them. / Will glisten like entrails in the sun." Inspired by sources as diverse as the post-apocalyptic elegies of the Anglo-Saxon's and the work of writers like Anna Akhmatova, Paul Celan, and Zbigniew Herbert, the author seeks to lyricize and transmute the violence and terror inherent in a world on the verge of collapse.Taken as a…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Publication date: 9/16/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.24" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English