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Author Igloria, Luisa A., 1961-

Title Ode to the heart smaller than a pencil eraser : poems / by Luisa A. Igloria
Published Boulder, Colorado : Utah State University Press, An imprint of University Press of Colorado, 2014

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Series Swenson Poetry Award ; v. 17
Swenson Poetry Award
Contents Foreword by Mark Doty; Part I; Part II; Part III; Acknowledgments; About the Author; The May Swenson Poetry Award
Summary "When Luisa Igloria cites Epictetus-'as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place'-she introduces the crowded and contradictory world her poems portray: a realm of transience, yes, where the vulnerable come to harm and everything disappears, but also a scene of tremendous, unpredictable bounty, the gloriously hued density this poet loves to detail. 'I was raised / to believe not only the beautiful can live on / Parnassus, ' she tells us, and she makes it true, by including in the cyclonic swirl of her poems practically everything: a gorgeous, trou
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Subject American poetry.
English poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
POETRY -- General.
American poetry
English poetry
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780874219791
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087421968X
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9781492015932
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1492015911
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Other Titles Poems. Selections