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Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl: Poems
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeDiane Seusss brilliant followup to FourLegged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryStill life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezerburned DreamsicleStill life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinderStill life with whiskey wooden leg two potpies and a dead parakeetStill life with pork rinds pickled peppers and the Book of RevelationStill life with feeding tube oxygen halfeaten raspberry ZingerStill life with convenience store pecking order shotgun blast to the facefrom American Still LivesStill Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl takes its title from Rembrandts painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewers own troubled gaze. In Diane Seusss new collection, the notion of the still life is shattered and Rembrandts painting is presented across the book in piecesdetails that hide more than they reveal until theyre assembled into a whole. With invention and irreverence, these poems escape gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Instead, Seuss invites in the alienated, the washedup, the ugly, and the freakishthe overlooked many of us who might more often stand in a Walmart parking lot than before the canvases of Pollock, OKeeffe, and Rothko. Rendered with precision and profound empathy, this extraordinary gallery of lives in shards shows us that our memories are local, acute, and unrelenting.
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