You must remember this : poems /
Author / Creator: | Bazzett, Michael, author. |
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Uniform title: | Poems. Selections |
Edition: | First edition. |
Imprint: | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2014. |
Description: | 86 pages ; 22 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10118238 |
Summary: | "Hauntingly fable-like and delightfully idiosyncratic." --ADA LIMÓN A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet in this collection--selected by Kevin Prufer as the winner of the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry--Michael Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. "Your humor is deft and cutting / my fingers off one by one." Once dismembered, Bazzett's poems can re-member us and piece together the ways in which we once thought we knew ourselves, creating a new, strange sense of self. A meditation on who we are, who we've been, and what we might become, Bazzett's writing is like a note written in invisible ink: partially what we see on the page, but also the "many dozen doorways that we don't walk through each day." You Must Remember This is a consistently slippery, enrapturing collection of poems. |
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Physical Description: | 86 pages ; 22 cm |
ISBN: | 9781571314741 1571314741 9781571319302 |