Green Island : poems /

The poems in Green Island delve into the relationship between place and imagination, examining the ways in which the physical places the speaker occupies, remembers and imagines determine and enlarge her understanding of self. While operating with startling self-awareness, Green Island does not simp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Countryman, Liz (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: North Adams, Massachusetts : Tupelo Press, [2024].
Series:Tupelo Press First / Second Book Award (Series)
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Summary:The poems in Green Island delve into the relationship between place and imagination, examining the ways in which the physical places the speaker occupies, remembers and imagines determine and enlarge her understanding of self. While operating with startling self-awareness, Green Island does not simply offer poems that interrogate the circumstances of their own making. The work found in this slim volume questions the poetic tropes of beauty and romantic love and their relationships to the lyric. Ultimately working within the confines of a received tradition to expand what is possible within it, Liz Countryman shows us moments of quiet revelation in the quotidian, the comic and in the vestiges of popular culture.
Physical Description:73 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9781961209084
196120908X