Whoop & shush : poems /
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| Author / Creator: | Baker, Jeff, 1972- author. |
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| Uniform title: | Poems. Selections |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Sandpoint, Idaho : Lost Horse Press, [2015] |
| Description: | 66 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10300068 |
| Summary: | Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2013 <p> Whoop & Shush is a book of poems obsessed with the ways we are bound, and bound together, by our language. Whether these poems are re-envisioning a childhood in the Appalachians of East Tennessee, calling out to Cherokee ancestors who no longer populate a lost homeland, or are giving new voice to a range of characters in surprising ways (Shakespeare's Caliban show's up at the US Navy's nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll and a deceased Elvis speaks from the afterlife), the central obsession with how language can strike notes both high and low remains. Whoop & Shush calls out from worlds where words carry a physicality of the intensely observed but do not hesitate to sing their way, through metaphor, toward places where strange wonders counterbalance the starkly real.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | 66 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780990819301 0990819302 |
