| Description |
145 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Summary |
"At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth-and our plastic-choked ocean. Faced with the question of how to express the enormous ecological loss of our time, poet Sam Taylor marries this collective, global loss to a personal story involving childhood, memory, and a mother's early death to cancer, a story which culminates in a heartbreaking scene the speaker is compelled to revisit, relive, and revise. Along the way, the poet's experiments in a poetics of "self-erasure" create a polyphonic reading experience, enrich the book's journey into the underworld, and deepen its investigation into nonfiction, myth, and aesthetics. Weaving together a great diversity of themes, styles and lyric innovation, The Book of Fools challenges and refreshes our notions of what a poem can look like and what it can accomplish"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Genre/Form |
Autobiographical poetry. (OCoLC)fst01921585
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Ecopoetry. (OCoLC)fst01982522
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Autobiographical poetry.
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Ecopoetry.
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Essays.
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| ISBN |
9780942544770 (paperback) |
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0942544773 |
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9780942544817 (ebook) |
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9781737835998 (additional edition/text only) |
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1737835991 |
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