Scything by Kistner, Diane

Scything (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780982861264)

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Scything by Kistner, Diane

Scything

$8.95
Scything by Kistner, Diane

Scything

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Format: Paperback
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As the only species aware of its mortality, people have always had a morbid preoccupation with death. Our agrarian forefathers anthropomorphized their fear into the Grim Reaper, whose swipe symbolized the unexpected moment of life's end. Few of us own a scythe or know how to use one, but that swish still represents the surprise of hearing about someone's death and makes us tremble at the thought of how quickly we will pass into nonexistence. The now familiar Grim Reaper figure has outlasted four or five centuries, making appearances at costume balls and in New Yorker cartoons. He's forever here among us, maybe even sorting his socks, while providing fodder for black humor and verse. Both playful and somber, these poems improvise a traditional symbol, mocking the Reaper's mocking of our mortality.

Author: Diane Kistner,Joanne Lowery
ISBN-10: 0982861265
ISBN-13: 9780982861264
Publisher: Futurecycle Press
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2010
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.13lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d
By Diane Kistner
By Diane Kistner
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Joanne Lowery was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, Poetry East, Cimarron Review, Eclipse, roger, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Smartish Pace. Her chapbook Diorama won the Poems & Plays Thirteenth Annual Chapbook Prize, and Call Me Misfit received the 2009 Frank Cat Press Chapbook Prize. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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