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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
Publication date
November 4, 2016
Pages
96
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780822964315
ISBN-10
0822964317
Dimensions
0 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price
$15.95
Other format details
university press
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The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake. The shadows here are manyâcancer, poverty, a lost love, famine, suicide, war, an ever-encroaching existential angst. But so are the saving gracesâa drag queen waitress whose âpainted-on eyebrows arched like a bridge / toward starlight,â âstrawberries / grown fat around dimpled gold seeds,â Pink Floydâs ââOn the Turning Awayâ sent through my car / radio like the ghost voice of a beloved long dead,â black phoebes rattling âwinter / thistles, swollen throats percussing: / this is this is this is . . . â Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes reminds us that where there is shadow there must, necessarily, also be light.
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from Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (November 4, 2016)
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About: The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake.
About: The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake.
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