Things Are Disappearing Here : Poems
Overview
Disquieting new work from the winner of the 2001 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
Absence and trespass permeate these poems, in which what has just occurred--or what is about to--is as palpable and ominous as it is unrevealed. In Kate Northrop's finely-wrought verse, children have gone missing, sealed-off passages are discovered, and missing dogs emerge like visions before bounding off again. Northrop has a sixth sense for where the mundane and the uncanny pass too close for comfort--and no place more so than in the book's haunted centerpiece, a visceral rendering of a sixteenth-century Hungarian countess with certain insatiable appetites.
Gorgeous and strange, "Things Are Disappearing Here" is an imaginative tour-de-force.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780892553341
- ISBN-10: 0892553340
- Publisher: Persea Books
- Publish Date: April 2007
- Dimensions: 7.97 x 6.85 x 0.23 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
- Page Count: 61
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