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The Last Usable Hour (Lannan Literary Selections)

Deborah Landau

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Description:It is "always nighttime" in Deborah Landau's second collection--a series of linked lyric sequences, including insomniac epistolary love poems to an elusive "someone." Here is a haunted singing voice, clear and spare, alive with memory and desire, yet hounded by premonitions of a calamitous future. The speaker in this "ghost book" is lucid and passionate, even as everything is disappearing."blame the egg blame the fractured stonesat the bottom of the mind""blame his darkblue glare and craggy mugthe bulky king of trudge and stein""how I love a masculine in my parlorhis grizzly shout and weight one hundred drums""in this everywhere of blunt and soft sinkingI am the heavy hollow snared""the days are spring the days are summerthe days are nothing and not dead yet"Deborah Landau was educated at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Brown University, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a PhD in English and American literature. She co-hosts "Open Book" on Slate.com and is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program. She lives in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Last Usable Hour (Lannan Literary Selections). To get started finding The Last Usable Hour (Lannan Literary Selections), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: It is "always nighttime" in Deborah Landau's second collection--a series of linked lyric sequences, including insomniac epistolary love poems to an elusive "someone." Here is a haunted singing voice, clear and spare, alive with memory and desire, yet hounded by premonitions of a calamitous future. The speaker in this "ghost book" is lucid and passionate, even as everything is disappearing."blame the egg blame the fractured stonesat the bottom of the mind""blame his darkblue glare and craggy mugthe bulky king of trudge and stein""how I love a masculine in my parlorhis grizzly shout and weight one hundred drums""in this everywhere of blunt and soft sinkingI am the heavy hollow snared""the days are spring the days are summerthe days are nothing and not dead yet"Deborah Landau was educated at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Brown University, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a PhD in English and American literature. She co-hosts "Open Book" on Slate.com and is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program. She lives in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Last Usable Hour (Lannan Literary Selections). To get started finding The Last Usable Hour (Lannan Literary Selections), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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