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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789445103321

Autore

Teicher Craig Morgan

Titolo

Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-885635-14-1

1-4571-1055-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Winner of the 2007 Colorado prize for poetry"--title page verso.

Nota di contenuto

1. A new room -- Voice -- A thing defined -- Eye contact -- Brenda is in the room -- 2. the key to an unlocked door -- I am a poet -- A word -- The tower of London -- Nights -- For Charlie -- Four gardens -- I am a human man -- 3. A cure for childhood -- Only son -- The last minutes -- A cure for dead dogs -- One to another: a creation myth -- I am a father's son -- Ten movies and books -- 4. A history of light -- My embodiment -- Before the sea was molten -- Like a pebble in space is like a planet -- I am a woman's lover -- 5. Poem to read at my wedding.

Sommario/riassunto

Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems ... appears to be ... a light-hearted and amusingly self-conscious account of daily life. Brenda (the author's then fiancee, now wife) is indeed in the room. Because she and the world are loved, the everyday is lyrically charged: 'therefore allow me to look / out into a world about which / I have something to say: / were I able to see it all --how / the trees really smell, how the wind actually blows ... / I think / my mouth would be too full / to speak.' ... As soon as I had read the book, I wanted immediately to read it again, for its pebble that is also a planet. --Paul Hoover.