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- Odd Bloom Seen from Space
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- Odd Bloom Seen from Space
- Title
- Odd Bloom Seen from Space
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781609385040
- ISBN
- 9781609385040
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 30/04/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Weight
- 150g
- Series
- Iowa Poetry Prize
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Topic
- American / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 92 Pages
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These poems speak an odd nostalgia for what turns on, in, and alongside the world. A tragedy of loss, a miracle of eroticism, or a comedy of road kill, Odd Bloom Seen from Space looks at the self amid the ashes of fleeting exultation and uncertainty. The speaker tells stories with wild candor on matters of heroic inadequacy while searching through his obsessive questions for greater meaning. But it's in the act of discovery, through the hero's immediate ancestry that Welch's debut collection confronts big questions about family, music, art, and memory. Like a contemporary Diogenes who pursues meaning one small gesture at a time, Welch comes to learn truth is a "brutal commerce," beauty is "white legs / upon which she shed her childhood," time is "Michael Jackson / hooting in the trees," and "Love is gradual, a bottle / by sips, a bottle / poured onto the floor." There is wisdom to be gained from these inventive pursuits, but in the end it's not what is said, but how it's said with terse rhetoric, deep imagery, and surprising humor that makes Odd Bloom Seen from Space such a gorgeous, original, and baffling collection.
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University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1609385047
ISBN-13
9781609385040
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237514524
Product Key Features
Book Title
Odd Bloom Seen from Space
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / General
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
92 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6in
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Ps3623.E4637a6 2017
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His work is at once cubist and confessional, aching and wry. Welch's point-of-view, however eccentric, is an altogether welcome one., In language gemlike, shining, Timothy Daniel Welch invokes the labors of Hercules, an odd bloom seen from space, a mother's death, fishing, snow, and an ode to a nose, to embrace the vagaries of memory and the mysteries of time and the universe, in poems that continually seduce and surprise. 'Imagine a book of poems catching fire in the afternoon,' and you will know this book of marvels, this marvel of a book., In these poems, Welch is an attentive watcher who has 'lived most of my life alone.' From the little distance he cultivates, he manages a detailed view of the big picture. He is sometimes at the seashore, where he can observe children at play, seals 'lifting their backs / upon the water,' and wonders, 'is there a story to each wave that crosses the sea?' He looks to the distant shores of Greece, both for its timeless myths that are the roots of Western thought, and perhaps for more personal connections. This is classical poetry set in our time, with room for 'Owls and their Michael Jackson / hooting in the trees' and 'reading Anna Karenina / on a Kindle.' The 'odd bloom' of the title is an astronaut's vision of the towers collapsing on 9/11, though Welch sees it 'peripherally, which is what this is, some side-line / reflection'; history seems to happen to other people, in other places, affording Welch his detached viewpoint from which a kind of unbiased truth might be reported. Finally, for all its subtle sarcasms, this is a deeply earnest book, one sensitive soul's reckoning with a troubled age.
Copyright Date
2017
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Lccn
2016-040305
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Series
Iowa Poetry Prize Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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