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- Book Title
- On the Desire to Levitate : Poems
- Publication Name
- On the Desire to Levitate
- Title
- On the Desire to Levitate
- Subtitle
- Poems
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0821420984
- EAN
- 9780821420980
- ISBN
- 9780821420980
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 01/03/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Series
- Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Topic
- Women Authors, General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 64 Pages
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On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adolescent girls as mythical adventurers moving within a beloved but confining Midwest. Yet in Powell's skillful hands, hardship never overtakes: as judge Charles Hood writes, "There's often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity."
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Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-10
0821420984
ISBN-13
9780821420980
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178779469
Product Key Features
Book Title
On the Desire to Levitate : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
64 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3616.O8796a6 2014
Reviews
This collection celebrates the humanity and surprise of being a child, being an adult, being fully alive in this strange and perplexing and magnificent world. It's an inclusive story: angels mean something in this book, and are willing to look back at us just as hard as we look at them. Yet it's never grim—corn grows; language brims; lives rise and glow. There's often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity." — Charles Hood, author of South x South, and 2013 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize judge, I've always felt that the true test of a poet lies in his/her love poems — whether to nature, god, art, the beloved, it hardly matters — for therein lies the driving force of human experience: to release oneself from the limits of the self, to cross, as one poem puts it, that bridge of disbelief / between who someone is and might, someday, be." The hungers of sexual experience, the imaginary heavens of childhood, the mythic yearnings of Orpheus and Eurydice—this book abounds with examples. I suppose it goes without saying that the lyric gift required to invoke that world is an uncommon thing for any book of poems; for a first book, it is truly rare. Alison Powell's On the Desire to Levitate marks the beginning of a brilliant career." — Sherod Santos, author of The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems, By turns tough, talky, triumphant, and tragic, like the Midwest itself, Alison Powell's On the Desire to Levitate lifts us above the lush landscapes of her vision. Hers is an elegiac imagination that, in its very lyric confidence, manages to affirm that flight is never simple—all while making it look effortless. In love with language, folk song, the raw fields, and eminence, these poems sing while conjuring. Presto!" —Kevin Young, poet and author of The Grey Album, a New York Times Notable Book for 2012, and Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English at Emory University, "The great strengths...of the book, are vividness, striking images, a sense of place, and a forthright approach to the normal ambivalence in families' experience of age and death." -- Eclectica, Truly rare. Alison Powell's On the Desire to Levitate marks the beginning of a brilliant career." — Sherod Santos, professor of English, University of Missouri, and author of The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems, "This collection celebrates the humanity and surprise of being a child, being an adult, being fully alive in this strange and perplexing and magnificent world. It's an inclusive story: angels mean something in this book, and are willing to look back at us just as hard as we look at them. Yet it's never grim--corn grows; language brims; lives rise and glow. There's often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity."--Charles Hood, author of South x South, and 2013 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize judge, "By turns tough, talky, triumphant, and tragic, like the Midwest itself, Alison Powell's On the Desire to Levitate lifts us above the lush landscapes of her vision. Hers is an elegiac imagination that, in its very lyric confidence, manages to affirm that flight is never simple--all while making it look effortless. In love with language, folk song, the raw fields, and eminence, these poems sing while conjuring. Presto!"--Kevin Young, author of The Grey Album, (New York Times Notable Book, 2012), "In the second line of the title poem, which opens Alison Powell's first col- lection, we encounter the word flight, italicized, set off by itself between a colon and a period as if framed for our notice. It is a useful clue, for the twenty-nine poems gathered here exhibit several kinds of flight."--Scott Russell Sanders, Middle West Review, "I've always felt that the true test of a poet lies in his/her love poems--whether to nature, god, art, the beloved, it hardly matters--for therein lies the driving force of human experience: to release oneself from the limits of the self, to cross, as one poem puts it, "that bridge of disbelief / between who someone is and might, someday, be." The hungers of sexual experience, the imaginary heavens of childhood, the mythic yearnings of Orpheus and Eurydice--this book abounds with examples. I suppose it goes without saying that the lyric gift required to invoke that world is an uncommon thing for any book of poems; for a first book, it is truly rare. Alison Powell's On the Desire to Levitate marks the beginning of a brilliant career."--Sherod Santos, author of The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2014-000860
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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