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Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Autor von The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems

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Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of Apocalyptic Swing, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, winner of the Connecticut Book Award. She is Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry in the Department of English and Comparative mehr anzeigen Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. weniger anzeigen

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I loved the poetry, and I also love the poet. I watched a Q&A and poetry reading by them and they're honestly so nice and positive and it made me so happy to see them be happy.
 
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ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 |
Gabrielle Calvocoressi has crafted a collection of narrative poems that capture frozen moments of Americana, that ruminate on quintessential elements of that cultural spirit: fervent but hushed sexuality and the transformative capabilities of violence, even if the latter is expressed beautifully with the figure of Duk Koo Kim, in addition to Ruby Goldstein. "I love liked you liked Elvis loved pistols," says a "girl child" of another girl. The girl covets a saxophone and says to it, "Who cares if some boy held you first?". This book is Americana not held up stereotypes or easy concessions It embraces the full and shadowed spectrum of a country that pummels and denies itself, and that rallies and redeems itself through the microcosmic figures that exist within it. Here is the swagger and the sweat of common folk, and the unabashed unbuckling of the Bible Belt.… (mehr)
 
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