The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected by Emanuel, Lynn

The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822963691)

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The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected by Emanuel, Lynn

The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected

$22.00
The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected by Emanuel, Lynn

The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings and pleases with its intelligence, wit and vivacity. It breaks through, in ways that are bold, sexy, haunting and wry, the die-hard opposition of new and old, personal narrative and linguistic play, sincerity and irony, misery and hilarity. Open the book. Something new is happening here.

Author: Lynn Emanuel
ISBN-10: 0822963698
ISBN-13: 9780822963691
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 08/21/2015
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/20/2015
Library Journal 11/15/2015 pg. 90
By Lynn Emanuel
By Lynn Emanuel
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Lynn Emanuel is the author of four previous books of poetry: Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly--, and, most recently, Noose and Hook. Her work has been featured in ThePushcart Prize Anthology and TheBest American Poetry numerous times and is included in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Series Award, the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets, and, most recently, a fellowship from the Ranieri Foundation.

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