LEADER 03844nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910456796403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53767-9 010 $a9786612537677 010 $a0-226-03060-1 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226030609 035 $a(CKB)2550000000007451 035 $a(EBL)485963 035 $a(OCoLC)593274211 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000340239 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11265792 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340239 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10364953 035 $a(PQKB)11241111 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485963 035 $a(DE-B1597)523195 035 $a(OCoLC)748211750 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226030609 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485963 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10366841 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253767 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000007451 100 $a20071218d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMean$b[electronic resource] /$fColette LaBouff Atkinson 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (62 p.) 225 1 $aPhoenix poets 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-03057-1 311 $a0-226-03059-8 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tSpace Race -- $tMean -- $tMean, Part Two -- $tMedium Intense Red Copper -- $tRocket -- $tLoose -- $tHeat Wave -- $tHart Crane Slept Here -- $tFour -- $tLondon (1987) -- $tWrecking -- $tThree Days of the Condor -- $tThe Glass Show Lounge -- $tBakasana -- $tDeal -- $t"I'm sorry I was blind" -- $tHover -- $tIntention (The Dead Leaves) -- $tGain -- $tSpring Fling -- $tNew World -- $tLaurel -- $tReplacement Monkey -- $tSpirit -- $tProximity -- $tJuju's Sister -- $tGun Dog -- $tFlower Girl -- $tPark Bench -- $t"Perhaps this verse would please you better-Sue-(2)" -- $tProsthetic -- $tGarden Variety -- $t"For God's sake, get out" -- $tRoute -- $t1652 -- $tGraphic Novel Romance (V for Vendetta) -- $tGhost Squad -- $tHips -- $t1971 -- $tPort of Los Angeles -- $t"Taking it like a little soldier, aren't you?" -- $tFortune-Telling -- $tGardena Freeway, California -- $tNotes 330 $aIn the appropriately titled Mean, Colette LaBouff Atkinson's speakers confront a series of cruel lovers, estranged ex-husbands and ex-ex-wives, neglectful parents, disrespectful children, menacing drunks, would-be rapists, well-meaning but ineffectual teachers, and that annoying kid in first grade who wouldn't leave you alone. Managing to "say" what most of us would only think but never dare speak out loud, this stunning debut collection reveals that the horrors and cruelty we experience in everyday life can turn out to be very real indeed. But Atkinson does not merely rake her subjects across the coals: she deftly exposes, instead, how the world mirrors back to us our own meanness, lending it a truth and a history. In forty-three deadpan, often merciless prose poems that are masterpieces of the form, Mean lays bare the darkness within the narrator's heart as well as in ours. "Colette Labouff Atkinson's artful laconicism attains the force of a shout, without ever raising its voice. The intelligent, merciless narrative cool arrays a sad comedy, with an unemphatic but penetrating 'and then . . . and then': accounts of love pursued far more often than it is glimpsed or realized."-Robert Pinsky 410 0$aPhoenix poets. 606 $aProse poems, American 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aProse poems, American. 676 $a811/.6 700 $aAtkinson$b Colette LaBouff$01036402 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456796403321 996 $aMean$92456740 997 $aUNINA