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Kary Wayson
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Ohio State Univ Pr
Publication date
December 15, 2009
Pages
46
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780814251591
ISBN-10
0814251595
Dimensions
0.25 by 6 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.25 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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Life is a mystery, a puzzle, âa house of inscrutable signals,â leaving us âoften stranded in the middle of a feeling.â With exquisite manipulation of language, the poems in this collection seek to unravel the mystery and solve the puzzle by parsing everyday experiencesâobserving life while lying about on the couch, on the floor, in bed and outâand everyday relationshipsâbetween the self and the mother, the self and the father, the self and the lover, the self and the self, and the self and god. English, âthe telephone and the telephone book and the table with one vase and the cut rose,â is the means through which Wayson, drawing not only on her own wisdom but also on that of Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Shajahana, Mother Goose, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edward Gorey, and others, enacts intersections between self and meaning. At each intersection, loveâs loneliness forms and dissolves, expands and contracts, and then passes much like weather, or the mysterious changeable relationship between silence and words. Wayson may feel that she lives âwith a desk where nothing gets done,â but with every poem she finds âsome nook or cranny to plumb, some crook or nanny dumb enough to tell them what,â and another puzzle piece falls in place.
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2 cdr edition from Ohio State Univ Pr (December 15, 2009)
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from Ohio State Univ Pr (December 15, 2009)
9780814251591 | details & prices | 46 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 0.25 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $14.95
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