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Smokes

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Winner of theFour Way Books Award Series in Poetry selected by Robert Hass. "Susan Wheeler's Smokes looks like a book that sets itself the task of continuous invention and surprise... It's like listening to the still chancy and experimental transmission of the post modern vehicle gleefully downshifting into the breezy updrafts of the traditional musics of English verse, and then lurching into the future again. Smokes contains elegies, poems of urban and domestic angst, laments, invectives, cakewalks, struts. It's very much of the moment but it is also a deeply literary book -- how could it not be? And its confident rueful, and playful grasp of its tradition is eye-opening and, sardonic as it is, boisterous fun." --Robert Hass

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781884800191
  • ISBN-10: 188480019X
  • Publisher: Four Way Books
  • Publish Date: April 1998
  • Dimensions: 9.22 x 6.04 x 0.25 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
  • Page Count: 72

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