Bibliograph

The life, Carrie Fountain

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Label

The life, Carrie Fountain

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

The life

Oclc number

1191163758

Responsibility statement

Carrie Fountain

Series statement

Penguin poets

Summary

"An acclaimed poet deepens her exploration of the domestic in a new collection of playful, wise, and humorous poems The poems in Carrie Fountain's third collection, The Life, exist somewhere, as Rilke says, between "our daily life" and "the great work"--an interstitial space where sidelong glances live alongside shouts to heaven. In elegant, colloquial language, Fountain observes her children dressing themselves in fledgling layers of personhood, creating their own private worlds and personalities, and makes room for genuine marvels in the midst of routine. Attuned to the delicate, fleeting moments that together comprise a life, these poems offer a guide by which to navigate the signs and symbols, and to pilot if not the perfect life, the only life, the life we are given"--, Provided by publisher

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