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    Imaginary Vessels

    By Paisley Rekdal and Andrea Modica

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    About this ebook

    "Compelling, appealing, cinematic . . . Rekdal refreshes the meaning and the image of being displaced in this world." The Boston Globe

    "Rekdal's work deeply satisfies, for it witnesses and wonders over the necessary struggles of human awareness and being." Rain Taxi

    "In acknowledging the disappointing facts of our existence and singing her way into its amazement, she has created poetry that lives alongside the misery we sometimes witnessand sometimes cause." Slate

    Paisley Rekdal questions how identity and being inhabit metaphorical and personified "vessels," from blown glass and soap bubbles to skulls unearthed at the Colorado State Mental Institution. Whether writing short lyrics or a sonnet sequence celebrating Mae West, Rekdal's intellectually inquisitive and carefully researched poems delight in sound, meter, and head-on engagement. Illustrated with twelve Andrea Modica photographs.

    From "You're":

    Vague as fog and turniphipped, a creel of eels
    that slithers in stains. Dirty slate, you're
    Diamond Lil. She's you, you say. You're her. She's I. O
    Mae, fifth grade, we dressed in feathers and our mothers' slit
    pink slips, dipped into your schema and your accent,
    aspiring (like you) to be able to order coffee and have it
    sound like filth . . .

    Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of poetry, a book of personal essays, and a mixed media book of photography, poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopper Canyon Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781619321618
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