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My Second Work
Bridget Lowe
(Author)
Description
"The soul remembers all of this. How I swept the floor / with my golden hair. How I fed it watermelon and wine / from a porcelain dish. How I called it teacher and it called me teacher's pet." Metaphysical in concern and hypermodern in tone, Bridget Lowe returns in this appropriately titled, much-anticipated second collection, determined as ever to make meaning from the perversity of suffering. My Second Work is rare in its ability to be both completely idiosyncratic and widely resonant, as Lowe transforms experiences of shame, disgust, and bewilderment into a kind of mutant hope. Poems in this collection have appeared in the New Yorker and Poetry and were honored by the Poetry Society of America.Product Details
Price
$15.95
Publisher
Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publish Date
February 18, 2020
Pages
72
Dimensions
5.4 X 0.2 X 8.4 inches | 0.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780887486548
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About the Author
Bridget Lowe is the author of At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky, also published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared widely in publications including the New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, the New Republic, Parnassus, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She lives in Kansas City.
Reviews
"No poet writing today is more direct than Lowe: at the same time, no poet is more uncanny, more seductively strange. These poems love the world that does not always love them back. They're brilliant, scary, and heartbreakingly alive."--James Longenbach, author of How Poems Get Made
"The contemplative second collection from Lowe (At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky) blends stories of childhood and family with astute reveries and allegories, fusing the familiar and the strange and evoking the qualities of a modern parable...The confounding nature of pain and suffering is transformed by Lowe's modern and accessible verse."--James Longenbach, author of How Poems Get Made "Publishers Weekly"
"The contemplative second collection from Lowe (At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky) blends stories of childhood and family with astute reveries and allegories, fusing the familiar and the strange and evoking the qualities of a modern parable...The confounding nature of pain and suffering is transformed by Lowe's modern and accessible verse."--James Longenbach, author of How Poems Get Made "Publishers Weekly"
