Cloud of ink /
On the surface, L. S. Klatt's poems are airy and humorous-with their tales of chickens wandering the highways of Ohio and Winnebago trailers rolling up to heaven and whales bumping like watermelons in a bathtub-but just under the surface they turn disconcertingly serious as they celebrate the f...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City, Iowa :
University of Iowa Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Iowa poetry prize.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | On the surface, L. S. Klatt's poems are airy and humorous-with their tales of chickens wandering the highways of Ohio and Winnebago trailers rolling up to heaven and whales bumping like watermelons in a bathtub-but just under the surface they turn disconcertingly serious as they celebrate the fluent word. ℗¡Under the heat of inquiry, under the pressure of metaphor, the poems in Cloud of Ink liquefy, bend, and serpentine as they seek sometimes a new and sometimes an ancient destination. They present the reader with existential questions as they side-wind into the barbaric; the. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. "Winner of the Iowa poetry prize"--P. facing title page. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 64 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781587299728 (electronic bk.) 1587299720 (electronic bk.) |