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Between the Crackups is a frolicking romp through the abandoned factories, overcrowded highways, and forgotten rural landscapes of America. This provocatively voiced book explores themes of sexuality, gender, class, pop-culture, and aesthetics. Some of these poems are sonnets, some are multi-voiced elegies, others are meditations on loss. From the balmy swamps of Florida, to the snowed-in forests of northern Wisconsin, and back again, Rebecca Lehmann captures a feeling of cultural unease and personal panic in tight, smartly worded poems that banter casually with the tropes, traditions, and authors of the Western poetic canon. In the book, the Old English poem "The Dream of the Rood" is re-imagined as a two-part, modern-day fever dream, the classic pastoral landscape morphs into an apple orchard occupied by off-putting children, and the entire season of autumn goes missing. Part serious meditation and part carnival fun house, these poems will make the reader chortle, chuckle, snort, and maybe even blush.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Between the Crackups
• Author: Rebecca Lehmann
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9781844718580
• ISBN: 1844718581
• ID: 05095723
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Weight: 126 g
• Dimensions: 135 × 214 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2011

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