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Poetry. Winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Ilya Kaminsky. In his third full-length book of poems, Joshua Corey puts the sonnet to the test with this sequence of fractured, ventilated, and unrhymed poems written in the aftermath of 9/11 while Corey was living at a pastoral remove from war and terror in upstate New York. The tension between idyllic personal circumstances and horrific world-historical events led Corey to produce this series of layered poems, variously sardonic and sincere in tone. "These songs shuttle between a past and a future, cast adrift or severed from a violent, ashen present into a necessary untimeliness.... What then of the sonnet, repository of desire and enemy of time? It is, as ever, that form by which we re-imagine subjectivity to confront altered circumstances, and to assess 'the shipwreck of the singular' in the maelstrom of the many..."--Michael Palmer.

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

• Full title: Severance Songs
• Author: Joshua Corey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84
• EAN: 9781932195927
• ISBN: 9781932195927
• ID: 08873240
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Weight: 136 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2011

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