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Beauties on Mad River (Library of Public Policy and Public Administration),Used
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Product DescriptionBeauties on Mad River collects together fifteen years of poetry that has appeared in three Signal Editions: The Fabulous Disguise of Ourselves, South of the Tudo Bem Caf (1990), and What Dante Did With Loss (1994). This is poetry that, in the words of George Elliot Clarke, 'maps not so much the world as the soul.'Almost half the poems in this volume are new many of the 'keystone' poems inspired by the spirit of the eastern lyric form, the ghazal. 'Through the medium of the keystone poems,' Conn states, 'I perceive more clearly now, and in ways that I did not previously, the themes of individual earlier pieces... These 'plateau' pieces have functioned for me as true keystones, as revelatory glimpses back into my work of the last fifteen years.'ReviewConn's skill . . . reflects on every mad moment, interrogating the demands of everyday love and perpetual loss. Tanis MacDonald Monday Magazine March 8, 2001About the AuthorJan Conn has lived in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Caracas, and Gainsville, Florida. She now teaches in the biology department at the University of Vermont where she also works on the evolutionary history and genetics of mosquitoes.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.NamesakeIn the red wooden box, elaborately carved,lived all our family secrets. As a teenagegirl, I pilfered the box and opened it in private.Inside, a smaller red box. Letters from Aunt Emma,my namesake, 'to whom' inked out, black as midnight.About her spiritual quest, her dismissalfrom the convent age eighteen for falling in lovewith the moon. Silver stigmata appearingat the wrong time and place. Marry me, she wroteto the moon. Bring me to Babylon. Give me silkand satin wings that I might greet you fittingly.All day I drink Bloody Marys to commemorateher death by poison, her pioneeringflight to the moon.
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