Meme (Kuhl House Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (741 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609381270 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 87 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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These poems are pure poetic genius."—Mary Jo Bang, author, The Bride of E . That the elaborately constructed edifice that is personality can be reconstructed with such fascinating economy and delightful indirection is amazing. "In Meme, the traditional elegy dissolves into excited bursts of imitated idiomatic speech interwoven with writing from a different register—the coolly removed, self-insightful lyric
What could be more potent memes than those passed down by parents to their children? Wheeler reconstructs her mother’s voice—down to its cynicism and its mid twentieth-century midwestern vernacular—in “The Maud Poems,” a voice that takes a more aggressive, vituperative turn in “The Devil—or—The Introjects.” In the book’s third long sequence, a generational inheritance feeds cultural transmission in “The Split.” A set of variations on losses and break-ups—wildly, darkly funny throughout and, in places, devastatingly sad—“The Split” brings Wheeler’s lauded inventiveness, wit, and insight to the profound loss of love. One read, and the meme “Should I stay or should I go?” will be altered in your head forever. . Acclaimed poet Susan Wheeler, whose last individual collection predicted the spiritual losses of the economic collapse, turns her
Seriously fabulous Mary j Smith While I love poetry, I bought this for my poet writing grandaughter, who calls me "Meme". So, you can imagine my delight in finding it contains, poetry complex and brilliant. While I have no idea what she will think of it, she will have to admit, it'. Short but thoughful This is a sort collection of three series of poems that explore parenting and the tough relationships that we sometimes have with those around us. The first is an exploration in part of all the cliches that many times parents use in their arsenal in . Experiment with limited success Jon Corelis The confessional style has become so common in contemporary American poetry as to be, if not obligatory, at least standard. Apparently, the creative writing workshop principle "write what you know" has been established to mean, "Don't write about any