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The life of the stars is full of glamour, but is also contrasted with the trauma of leading such a life: "what a world, what a twisted/world this is, that, like a boxer's embrace, / beats us into bloody conceit." Following this thread are poems about the sometimes-similar struggles and dreams of the less fortunate, portrayed with storybook metaphor as "An aimless swirl to the centre of things where/ there are dying fathers, angry mothers, cruel sisters, / the same old story." Alternating between prose, lyric, elegy and dramatic monologue, the poems of There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore question the nature of performance, blur the lines of identity, and illustrate the age-old hunger to find, amidst life's glitter and waste, a happy ending.
Author: Adrienne Weiss
ISBN-10: 0889712948
ISBN-13: 9780889712942
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2014
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.30d
Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 04/01/2014 pg. 26
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