Post Romantic
Poems
Published on 15. October 2020
Book
Hardback
104 pages
978-0-295-74779-8 (ISBN)
Description
Expansive poems connect personal, national, and global histories
In her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory with national and ecological upheaval, interweaving narratives of family, nuclear history, love of country, and a dangerous age moving too fast. Flenniken takes these challenging moments-bits and pieces of childhood, marriage, cultural touchstones-and holds them up to the light, seeking comfort in a complicated world that is at once heartbreaking, confounding, and dear.
In her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory with national and ecological upheaval, interweaving narratives of family, nuclear history, love of country, and a dangerous age moving too fast. Flenniken takes these challenging moments-bits and pieces of childhood, marriage, cultural touchstones-and holds them up to the light, seeking comfort in a complicated world that is at once heartbreaking, confounding, and dear.
Reviews / Votes
"Concerned with nostalgia, masculinity, and the state of America, the 2014 Washington State Poet Laureate's latest collection holds a magnifying glass to the personal and political past to understand how it shapes our present."(Ampersand Magazine) "Post Romantic explores and weaves together the politics of country and self... clear, straightforward yet nuanced poems."
(Poetry Northwest)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-74779-8 (9780295747798)
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Persons
Kathleen Flenniken won the Washington State Book Award for her poetry collection Plume. Her first book, Famous, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Flenniken's other awards include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Artist Trust. She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014.