Perennial
The events of 1999<U+2019>s Columbine shooting preoccupy Forsythe in these poems, refracting her vision to encompass killer, victim, and herself as a girl, suddenly aware of the precarity of her own life and the porousness of her body to others<U+2019> gaze, demands, violence. Deeply researched and...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Coffee House Press,
2018.
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| Summary: | The events of 1999<U+2019>s Columbine shooting preoccupy Forsythe in these poems, refracting her vision to encompass killer, victim, and herself as a girl, suddenly aware of the precarity of her own life and the porousness of her body to others<U+2019> gaze, demands, violence. Deeply researched and even more deeply felt, Perennial inhabits landscapes of emerging adulthood and explosive cruelty<U+2015>the hills of Pittsburgh and the sere grass of Colorado; the spines of books in a high school library that has become a killing ground; the tenderness of children as they grow up and grow hard, becoming acquainted with dread, grief, and loss. |
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| Physical Description: | 66 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781566895170 1566895170 |
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