Survival strategies : poems /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Black, Tennison S., author.
Imprint:	Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023] ©2023
Description:	75 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	National poetry series National poetry series.
Subject:	American poetry. Poetry. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13287002

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ISBN:	0820365157 9780820365152
Notes:	"The national poetry series selected by Adrienne Su"--Cover
Summary:	"Survival Strategies is a love story wrapped in a reckoning. Arranged in three parts, the arc follows a speaker who is returning to the Sonoran of her birth after many years away. In the course of the first section, "The Sunniest Place on Earth," we learn that the speaker has developed a deep hatred of the desert (a reflection of herself) due to the way she was treated and what she witnessed while being raised there. As we move through to part two, "Estivate So You Don't Die," we see the speaker grappling with her past as a sensitive person amid the rugged realities of life in the Southwest. As this section closes, there is a long-form prose poem assembled as a mythopoetic fable titled, "The Mother and the Mountain" that explores her mother's childhood. This section brings revelation to some of what precedes it and reveals the speaker as the buttress of this family who, though an outsider, walks a path first laid by her mother. The final section is titled simply, "After" and, as its title suggests, is a short set of poems that wrap up the arc and bring peace to our speaker as she comes to realize she never hated the desert, nor herself, as she is set free by the ocean of the Pacific Northwest"-- \|c Provided by publisher.

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Call Number:	PS3602.L32526S87 2023
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