Twin Cities
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, Poetry, American
| Author: | Carol Muske-Dukes | ISBN: | 9781101528792 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | May 31, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Carol Muske-Dukes |
| ISBN: | 9781101528792 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | May 31, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Language: | English |
A sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today's finest living poets.
Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose latest collection, Sparrow, a haunting elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally rich book of poems about how things double-by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined-and the random intersection of the two. Lit by loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment and rescue-they are two, and they are one.
A sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today's finest living poets.
Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose latest collection, Sparrow, a haunting elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally rich book of poems about how things double-by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined-and the random intersection of the two. Lit by loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment and rescue-they are two, and they are one.
