The Blues of Heaven: Poems by Ras, Barbara

The Blues of Heaven: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822966548)

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The Blues of Heaven: Poems by Ras, Barbara

The Blues of Heaven: Poems

$18.00
The Blues of Heaven: Poems by Ras, Barbara

The Blues of Heaven: Poems

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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In The Blues of Heaven, Barbara Ras delivers her characteristic subjects with new daring that both rattles and beguiles. Here are poems of grief over her brother's death; doors to an idiosyncratic working-class childhood among Polish immigrants; laments for nature and politics out of kilter. Ras portrays the climate crisis, guns out of control, the reckless injustice and ignorance of the United States government. At the same time, her poems nimbly focus on particulars--these facts, these consequences--bringing the wreckage of unfathomable harm home with immediacy and integrity. Though her subjects may be dire, Ras also weaves her wise humor throughout, moving deftly from sardonic to whimsical to create an expansive, ardent, and memorable book.

Author: Barbara Ras
ISBN-10: 0822966549
ISBN-13: 9780822966548
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2021
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 12
By Barbara Ras
By Barbara Ras
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Barbara Ras is the author of the poetry collections Bite Every Sorrow (winner of the Walt Whitman Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award), One Hidden Stuff, and The Last Skin. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, and Orion, as well as in other magazines and anthologies. Ras has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at workshops nationally and internationally. She lives in San Antonio and is the founding director emerita of Trinity University Press.

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