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    612-822-4611

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No Such Thing as Distance

No Such Thing as Distance

Holmes, Karen Paul

Paperback

Series: Terrapin Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 099821597X
ISBN13: 9780998215976
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Published: Feb 1 2018
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What marvelous poems these are, and how complete a collection. Like a circus aerialist who makes us gasp one moment and laugh the next, the poet takes us from her immigrant father's Macedonian roots to her own maturity, to the life of a woman who is smart and well-read yet knows her way around a Coney Island hot dog and finds the attentions of a drunk cowboy oddly flattering. There are so many good poems here that it's hard to pick a favorite, but I'll put my money on Confessions of an Ugly Nightgown, in which a dead woman's shapeless article of intimate apparel says it can still rouse a sleeping husband and is loveliest as it lies on the floor.

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