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Black aperture : poems / Matt Rasmussen.

By: Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]Description: 64 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807150863
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3618.A775 B53 2013
Contents:
I Trajectory -- after suicide -- the orange leaves -- 747 -- the wave -- and God said. -- I am not a poem -- tom black -- field with whales -- after suicide -- in the whoever's hotel room this is -- vacation cage -- monet as a verb -- we're not the stars, we're what's between them -- seed -- chekhov's gun -- II elegy in x parts -- III outgoing -- land o' lakes -- a poem in which leaves again figure prominently -- burial -- aperture.
Awards:
  • Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, 2012.
Summary: "In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother?s suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In ?Outgoing?, the speaker erases his brother?s answering machine message to save his family from ?the shame of dead you / answering calls?. In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb ?blooms downward, a flower / of smoldering filaments?. A refrigerator holds ?an evening landscape, a tinfoil lake, vegetables / dying in the crisper?. Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning: damage and healing, sorrow and laughter, and torment balanced with moments of relief." -- author's website
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3618 .A775 B53 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001313013

"LSU Press Paperback Original" -- Title page verso.

I Trajectory -- after suicide -- the orange leaves -- 747 -- the wave -- and God said. -- I am not a poem -- tom black -- field with whales -- after suicide -- in the whoever's hotel room this is -- vacation cage -- monet as a verb -- we're not the stars, we're what's between them -- seed -- chekhov's gun -- II elegy in x parts -- III outgoing -- land o' lakes -- a poem in which leaves again figure prominently -- burial -- aperture.

"In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother?s suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In ?Outgoing?, the speaker erases his brother?s answering machine message to save his family from ?the shame of dead you / answering calls?. In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb ?blooms downward, a flower / of smoldering filaments?. A refrigerator holds ?an evening landscape, a tinfoil lake, vegetables / dying in the crisper?. Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning: damage and healing, sorrow and laughter, and torment balanced with moments of relief." -- author's website

Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, 2012.

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