| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Phoenix poets |
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Phoenix poets.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; One; New House; The Orchestra; Smorzando; Deciding Between Far- or Near-Sightedness Before Eye Surgery; Pages from My Father's Dream Journal; Souvenir; Three Pictures; Ferryboat; Postcard from My Hometown in Summer; Disposable Camera; Two; Palindromist's Song; Seven Ways of Paraphrase; Letters to My Twin; Mouths: In Their Own Words; Swimmers; Evening Poem; Last Act: The Creation; Three; Rex; Jellyfish; Dubuffet on Uncertainty; Letter; Dinner à Deux; Lines for a Love Poem; New Life; Spring; Four; Christ's Entry into Brussels (Ensor); The Führer Descends from Heaven |
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Masaccio Addresses Eve at the Brancacci ChapelAnagramist's Song; Harvest Fair; The Pause; Love Poem; Hermit's Glossary; Tableau; Notes |
| Summary |
Although Disposable Camera is Janet Foxman's first book-length collection, one would not know it given the wry sophistication of the poems found within. The notion of the disposable camera permeates the entire book, where Foxman considers the instabilities in even our deepest attachments. Here gulfs expand, for instance, between twins, between the musician and his instrument, between the recluse and his inconsolable solitude. Whether a hermit; a twin; a filmgoer utterly taken with Triumph of the Will; or Masaccio, just after he's painted the Expulsion-the p |
| Analysis |
instability, disposability, poetry, literature, contemporary, creative writing, attachment, relationships, love, family, loss, distance, separation, fragility, vulnerability, twins, musicians, bonds, recluse, solitude, isolation, hermit, artist, expression, satisfaction, meaning, fulfillment, happiness, art, creation, making, dreams |
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Poems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Boston University. Creative Writing Program
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226924120 |
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0226924122 |
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0226924122 |
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6613970042 |
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9786613970046 |
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1283657546 |
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9781283657549 |
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