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An edition of The room where I was born (2003)

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"An architecture equally poetry, fairy tale, autobiography, and fiction, The Room Where I Was Born rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and literature. Following a trajectory from the bedrooms of childhood through the hotel rooms of adulthood, the book is a fable about desire, filtered through the losses and fractures of trauma. Its lush, sensual language is the life within violence where imagination resides."

"Though the poems are forms borne out of the intersection of violence and sexuality, they also affirm the tenderness and compassion necessary to give consciousness and identity sufficient meaning. The characters in these poems try to locate the possible meanings and effects of experience, and their language is the threshold over which the brutal crosses into the beautiful. This collection is an achievement of courage and vision."--Jacket.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Language
English
Pages
98

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Poetry (poetic works by one author) LGBTQ poetry collection:thom_gunn_award=winner Poetry
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Edition Notes

Published in
Madison
Series
The Brittingham prize in poetry

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.6
Library of Congress
PS3620.E427 R66 2003, PS3620.E427R66 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 98 p. ;
Number of pages
98

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3673457M
ISBN 10
0299194000, 0299194043
LCCN
2003006271
OCLC/WorldCat
51898581
LibraryThing
333322
Goodreads
3213612
235836

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL6027581W

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An architecture equally poetry, fairy tale, autobiography, and fiction, The Room Where I Was Born rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and literature. Though the poems are borne out of the intersection of violence and sexuality, they also affirm the tenderness and compassion necessary to give consciousness and identity sufficient meaning. This collection is an achievement of courage and vision.

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