About the dead: poems
| dc.contributor.author | Mossotti, Travis, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Utah State University Press, publisher | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:47:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:47:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Travis Mossotti writes with humor, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: "ask him to put into words what that sinking is, / that shudder in his chest, as he notices / the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth." But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic portraits of hard-used saints. His vision is clear, as clear as the memory of how scarecrows in the rearview, "each of them, stuffed / into a body they didn't choose, resembled / your own plight." His poetry embraces unsanctimonious life with all its wonder, its levity, and clumsiness. About the Dead is an accomplished collection by a writer in control of a wide range of experience, and it speaks to the heart of any reader willing to catch his "drift, and ride it like the billowed / end of some cockamamie parachute all the way / back to the soft, dysfunctional, waiting earth." | |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/88093 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Utah State University Press | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | May Swenson Poetry Award series | |
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| dc.subject | American poetry -- 21st century | |
| dc.title | About the dead: poems | |
| dc.type | Text |
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