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\"Duy Doan's striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collection's unassuming title, in poems that explore--now with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reserve--the ambiguities and tensions that mark our effort to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves. These are poems that draw from Doan's experience as a Vietnamese-American while at the same time making a case for--and masterfully playing with--the fluidity of identity, history, and language. Nothing is alien to these poems: the Saigon of a mother's dirge, the footballer Zinedine Zidane, an owl that \"talks to his other self in the well\"--all have a place in Doan's far-reaching and intimately human art.\"--Dust jacket.
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The Solace Is Not the Lullaby
Jill Osier's poems of quiet attention comprise this 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets
The hollow more than shape is certain. The 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets features Jill Osier's poems of quiet attention to the human and natural worlds. In his foreword to the collection, award-winning poet Carl Phillips notes, \"Certain mysteries-most of them-remain mysteries in an Osier poem.\" Despite this, Osier's poetry-distinguished by its brevity, precision, and restraint-offers what Phillips describes as feeling \"incongruously (dare I say magically?) like closure, a steady place to land.\" He notes that \"Osier's is a sensibility unlike any I've encountered before-the poems here are thrilling, and strangely new.\"
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A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation, striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book \"rollicking, destabilizing, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant.\" This is poetry that breaks new literary ground, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world.
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