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Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful

Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful - Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry

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Publisher's Synopsis

This is the "Age of the Bullet," Matthew Lippman writes in Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful, days in which "bullets sprout other bullets in the bullet garden" and a caricature of a onesie-wearing president sucking on a pacifier appears on the cover of a national magazine. Lippman's poems are wildly inventive yet grounded in the 21st-century dailyness of parenting and dinner parties and Dunkin Donuts, all of which serve as launch pads into perennial questions of mercy and trust. "I don't care what you say about this city," Lippman writes in the title poem whose images recall New York City in the days following 9/11: "We sit down together on the sidewalk / and we hold one another." These are brash, beautiful poems, big-hearted in their tilt toward sentimentality and their yearning for something more, something better.

Book information

ISBN: 9781945588488
Publisher: Four Way Books
Imprint: Four Way Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 811.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 78
Weight: 159g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 5mm