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Author Weiss, Adrienne, 1973- author.

Title Awful gestures / by Adrienne Weiss
Published Toronto : Insomniac Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (59 pages)
Contents Awful Gestures; Rain is no ordinary miracle; Subterranean; Scar; A Pretty Mistake; Stand Behind the Yellow Line; Queen Bee; Sweetheart Roland; Dead Flies; Road Kill: leaving you in a suburban restaurant; I watch you, real hard; Pop Art; Timeless; A Heart Like Yours; Itinerant Job; Unwavering, linoleum rain pelts on; A Deep Shade of Remedy; Beyond the Flurry; Stay; Dextrarum Iunctio (The Joining of Right Hands); Careful Where You Tread; In my heat you disappear; Night Comes For Sleep; The Myth of Tantalus; Glitter and Waste; Chance Operations; Smoking is Sexy
Summary Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection. Like Stevens, the poet acts as an intuitive observer and an almost violently acute mystic throughout these extravagant poems
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Subject Weiss, Adrienne, 1973-
Poetry, Modern -- 21st century.
Poetry, Modern
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1280910879
9781280910876
189741479X
9781897414798