Double Portrait (Barnard Women Poets Prize)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393354016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Musical, insightful, and all the way human.”Claudia Rankine, 2016 Barnard Women Poets Prize citationEach poem in Brittany Perham’s prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved, child and parent, citizen and country, spirit and body, living and dead. By questioning the ways we think and speak, the ways we rehash and reshape our experience, they formalize obsession. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen, to reflect and be reflected, to address and be addressed? With musicality, gr
Double Portrait is full of bracing poetry and arrives from deep inside the soulful solid. There may be a few other books as good as this published this year. I’m unnerved by the shock of recognition and subversive brilliance of Double Portrait.” - Randall Mann“Doubling back or spiraling around, incantatory, off-kilter, more song than story, the gorgeously obsessive poems in Double Portrait reflect the ways in which we are sprung into, or thrown off, orbit by desire, grief, sex, loveor simply facing the puzzle of an other… A smart, surprising, and compelling new collection.” - Donna Masini. There won’t be any better.” - David Rivard&ldquo
She is the author of The Curiosities and, with Kim Addonizio, the chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction. Brittany Perham is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco.