Receipt (eBook)

Poems

Karen Leona Anderson (Autor)

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2016
90 Seiten
Milkweed Editions (Verlag)
978-1-57131-927-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Poems about consumption: "e;Deft and insightful . . . resonant and witty."e; -The Washington PostIn her second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documents-recipes and receipts-into expressions of human identity. From eighteenth-century cookbooks to the Food Network, the recipe becomes a site for definition and disclosure. Like a theatrical script, the recipe directs action and conjures characters (Grace Kelly at a party). In these poems, the pie is a cultural artifact and Betty Crocker, icon of domesticity, looms large. From the little black dress ($49.99 Nordstroms) to an epidural ($25.00 co-pay), Anderson reveals life in the twenty-first century to be equally hampered and enabled by expenditures. Amidst personal and domestic economies, wildness proliferates-bats, deer, ocelots, and fungus-reminding the reader that not all can be assimilated, eaten, or spent.Receipt is like the lovechild of Anne Sexton and Adam Smith, illuminating the ways in which our lives are both constrained by pieces of paper, and able to slip through the crevices of cultural detritus down to the rich current of animal feeling beneath."e;Anderson's poems prioritize wordplay, assonance, and alliteration, which lead her to surprising turns of phrase."e; -Publishers Weekly"e;Anderson doesn't miss a beat as she traces our consumerisms-economic, sexual, spiritual, and more-with irony, wit, sadness and more than a little humor. Receipt is, quite simply, a terrific book."e; -Linda Bierds

Autor

Karen Leona Anderson grew up in Connecticut. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an MA from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and her PhD from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. Her work has appeared in ecopoetics, jubilat, Verse, Indiana Review, Fence, Volt, and other journals. She is an associate professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-57131-927-1 / 1571319271
• ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-927-2 / 9781571319272