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Imaginary vessels / Paisley Rekdal.

by Rekdal, Paisley.

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Copper Canyon Press, 2016.

American poetry -- Women authors.

American poetry -- 21st century.

9781556594977 (pbk.)

xii, 119 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

"Lannan literary selection."

Some copies may be permabound.

Includes bibliographical references (page 117).

"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 turnip-hipped, 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 the poetry collections A Crash of Rhinos (2000), Six Girls Without Pants (2002), The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (2007), and Imaginary Vessels (2016), as well as the book of essays The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In (2000). She lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah"--Provided by publisher.

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