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Death of a Ventriloquist
Contributor(s): Fay-LeBlanc, Gibson (Author)

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 ISBN: 157441447X     ISBN-13: 9781574414479
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
OUR PRICE: $12.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2011042003
Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
Physical Information: 0.23" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.33 lbs) 96 pages
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/16/2012 pg. 34
 
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Publisher Description:
Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2011.
This debut collection includes love songs and prayers, palinodes and pleas, short histories and tragic tales as well as a series of ventriloquist poems that track the epiphanies and consequences of speaking in a voice other than one's own. Other poems speak to a Beloved and the highs and lows of parenthood and personhood--all with music and verve, with formal dexterity, with sadness and humor, with an intimate voice that can both whisper in our ears and grab us by the collar and implore us to listen.

"What drives the poems in this wonderfully animated debut volume and prompts the reader's pleasure in them is the patent honesty of the poet's voice. In the 'ventriloquist' series itself, Fay-LeBlanc creates a remarkable refracted self-portrait, bristling with moments of unabashed illumination."--Eamon Grennan, author of Out of Sight

"In the words of visual artist Paul Klee, whose synaesthetically suggestive work inspires this manuscript, 'art doesn't reproduce what we can see, it makes it visible.' The turf of these poems is a 'vision country' in which our narrator / ventriloquist makes visible (and audible) the world to which he restlessly attends, offering up the 'voices' of everything. Formally deft, these poems address the limits and grace of lyric poetry."--Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Satin Cash and judge
 
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