Jimmy and Rita

Name: Jimmy and Rita
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ISBN: 9781936205684

ISBN-10: 1936205688

ISBN-13: 9781936205684

Edition: N/A

Authors: Kim Addonizio

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“One of the wonderful things aboutJimmy & Ritais that Kim Addonizio never imposes herself in any way, so the poems sing themselves into us. We experience the victories and defeats of Jimmy and Rita as they struggle through the boundless claustrophobia of their world. I think of them and there is a sense of sadness within me. Yet I think of what Addonizio has accomplished and I feel joy.”—Hubert Selby, Jr “ Kim Addonizio’s work is distinguished by two of the rarest qualities in American poetry: a sense of dramatic life on the page and a sense of class consciousness. Both are evident inJimmy & Rita, a book that streams with the fragmented unity, pace and visceral immediacy of a film:--Stuart…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 89
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Kim Addonizio is the author of five poetry collections, includingTell Me, a National Book Award finalist. Herlatest collection is Lucifer at theStarlite.