The Judas ear : poems /
"The poems in Anna Journey's new collection, The Judas Ear, resurrect a host of vanished people and places, often through marvelous Ovidian metamorphoses that are as natural in the gritty tableaux of Richmond, Virginia, as in the luminous shape-shifting vistas of folktale or myth. A restau...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3066068 |
| Summary: | "The poems in Anna Journey's new collection, The Judas Ear, resurrect a host of vanished people and places, often through marvelous Ovidian metamorphoses that are as natural in the gritty tableaux of Richmond, Virginia, as in the luminous shape-shifting vistas of folktale or myth. A restaurant server donates her eggs to a fertility agency for rent money and morphs into the golden goose, a pair of art-school roommates communicate through a private language based on Renaissance artist Arcimboldo's invertible paintings that change from portrait to still life, and a vintage pink couch sourced from a meningitis clinic transforms from an object of domestic comfort to a viral threat. Journey's music is lush and visceral, her humor warm and sly, and her sensibility metes out tenderness and grotesquerie in equal parts. Taking its title from the ear-shaped mushroom named for a biblical betrayer, The Judas Ear offers poems that can shift suddenly from wit to pathos, from seductiveness to danger, with a generosity of vision that is at once wise and revelatory"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780807177433 0807177431 9780807177426 0807177423 9780807176610 |