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In the Permanent Collection
Contributor(s): Wortman, Stefanie (Author)

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ISBN: 1574415549     ISBN-13: 9781574415544
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
OUR PRICE: $12.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2013047884
Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.30 lbs) 84 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2013.

Trying to make sense of a disordered world, Stefanie Wortman's debut collection examines works of art as varied as casts of antique sculpture, 19th-century novels, and even scenes from reality television to investigate the versions of order that they offer. These deft poems yield moments of surprising levity even as they mount a sharp critique of human folly.

"These poems seem haunted by a mostly nameless melancholia. In The Permanent Collection, however, turns its grim geography of prisons, mortuaries, and tawdry suburbs into something close to classical elegy. 'In sunken rooms, ' Wortman writes, 'on scratchy rugs, maybe we've never known happiness.' It's that 'maybe'--the smart hedge--that renders her poems complex, often beguiling, but never without a gesture of redemption. This should be part of any serious poet's permanent collection."--Chad Davidson, author, The Last Predicta and judge

From "Long Occupation"

I was na ve of foreign affairs in the Four
Seasons bar when a Swiss knife maker
assured me of the coming war. . .
 
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