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A Hummock in the Malookas : Poems
Overview
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; winner of the 1994 National Poetry Series. In the singular landscape of Matthew Rohrer's first book of poems, the weather, the food, even the household appliances come to life. "A few pages into this book," says the Minneapolis City Pages, "and you'll start glancing sideways at the terrain, which . . . looks suddenly vital." These quirky poems entertain and delicately point to truth. Rohrer illuminates a land of skewed realities where the impossible seems familiar, the sacher torte is afraid to be eaten, and it's always dusk in the forest.
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- ISBN-13: 9780393315486
- ISBN-10: 0393315487
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: February 1991
- Dimensions: 8.28 x 5.56 x 0.26 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.22 pounds
- Page Count: 76
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