Earnest, Earnest?: Poems by Boudreau, Eleanor

Earnest, Earnest?: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822966302)

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Earnest, Earnest?: Poems by Boudreau, Eleanor

Earnest, Earnest?: Poems

$18.00
Earnest, Earnest?: Poems by Boudreau, Eleanor

Earnest, Earnest?: Poems

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover's name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whether both can be present at the same time. While Earnest can be read literally as Eleanor's lover, he is best understood as another side of the poet's self. The ambiguity at play in Earnest, Earnest? is embodied in the form of the "Earnest Postcards" that structure the book--these postcards are experimental in their use of images and formal in their dialogue with the sonnet. Thus, Earnest, Earnest? is a question of tone, address, and form.

Author: Eleanor Boudreau
ISBN-10: 0822966301
ISBN-13: 9780822966302
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2020
Pages: 62
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d
By Eleanor Boudreau
By Eleanor Boudreau
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Eleanor Boudreau is a poet who has worked as a dry-cleaner and as a radio reporter. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House, Barrow Street, Waxwing, Willow Springs, FIELD, Copper Nickel, and other journals. Currently, she is finishing her PhD and teaching creative writing at Florida State University.

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