Four in hand / Alicia Mountain.
"Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain's Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language and white space equally captivate wi...
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| Other title: | 4 in hand |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY :
BOA Editions, Ltd,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | American poets continuum series ;
v. 198. |
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| Summary: | "Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain's Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language and white space equally captivate with their sparsity and abundance as Mountain pursues the implications of national political identity with intersectional awareness. These poems interrogate our collective complicity in late-stage capitalism, drone warfare, the election of Donald Trump, environmental degradation, mental health crises, and the dawn of Covid-19 through the lens of gay poetic lineage, regionalism, and familial kinships structures"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 93 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781950774869 1950774864 |