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Overview
Greg Wrenn's debut collection opens with a long poem in which a man undergoes surgery to become a centaur. Other poems speak in voices as varied as those of Robert Mapplethorpe, Hercules, and a Wise Man at the birth of Jesus. Centaur skitters along the blurred lines between compulsivity and following one's heart, stasis and self-realization, human and animal. Here, suffering and transcendence are restlessly conjoined.
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- ISBN-13: 9780299294441
- ISBN-10: 0299294447
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publish Date: May 2013
- Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.35 pounds
- Page Count: 92
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