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In accessible poems full of rich detail and painterly images, Maura Stanton looks under the surface of the ordinary, hoping to find the magic spark below the visible. In poems both humorous and elegiac, she gathers strange facts, odd events, and overlooked stories to construct her own vision of immortality, one made up of fragments of history and geography and the illusions of yearning human beings. From elephants in Ceylon to Nazi prisoners in Ireland, from Beowulf to Jane Austen, from sonnets to prose poems to blank verse, "Immortal Sofa" conjures our complex existence in all its sorrowful but astonishing variety.

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

• Full title: Immortal Sofa
• Author: Maura Stanton
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 104
• EAN: 9780252033087
• ISBN: 0252033086
• ID: 04868039
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 295 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. June 2008

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