
Life of the Garment
Poems
Deborah Gorlin(Author)
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 4. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-87233-192-1 (ISBN)
Description
In her vital, elegiac poems, Deborah Gorlin inventories her dead in urgent acts of recognition and commemoration. Family members - both nuclear and extended - appear in their native stories to reanimate local histories, intimate geographies, and lost times. In a different series of personae poems, Gorlin catalogues dolls and totems within their particular cultural habitats, which range from Africa to the Andes, and imagines their daemonic hopes, dreams and emotions. In a final act of inclusion, she takes stock of her own spiritual hesitations, yearnings, approximations, and explorations of such crazy topics as fingernails, Hebraic trees, and fat.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87233-192-1 (9780872331921)
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Contest judge Deborah Gorlin has published in a wide range of journals including Poetry, Antioch Review, American Poetry Review, Seneca Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Best Spiritual Writing 2000. She taught writing and co-directed of the Writing Program at Hampshire College. She is currently Poetry Editor at The Massachusetts Review.