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Once - Paperback

by Meghan O'Rourke
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Availability:In StockContributor:Meghan O'RourkePublish date:2013-03-01Pages:92
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393343946ISBN-10:393343944UPC:9780393343946Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2Product ID:SCERE61EQK

These poems are shadowed by illness, both civic and personal, and by the mysterious currents of grief. What emerges over the course of the volume is a meditation not only on a daughter's relationship with her mother but also on a citizen's to her nation. Throughout, Once examines the forces that shape war, divorce, and death, exploring personal culpability and charting uncertain new beginnings as the speakers seek to build homes in a shattered land and find whole selves amid broken, thwarted relationships.

from "Frontier"

. . . At times,
I felt sick, intoxicated
by BPA and mercury.
At other times I fasted and the stars
stumbled clear from the vault.
Up there, the universe stands around drunk.
I hope the Lord is kind to us,
for we engrave our every mistake . . .

Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393343946ISBN-10:393343944UPC:9780393343946Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2Product ID:SCERE61EQK
O'Rourke, Meghan: - Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the collections Sun in Days, Halflife, and Once, as well as a memoir, The Long Goodbye. A former editor at The New Yorker, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate, poetry editor for the Paris Review, and is currently the editor of The Yale Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Poetry, the New Republic, and Poetry, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and other awards, she lives in Brooklyn.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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