Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

The life, Carrie Fountain

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poetry

The life

1191163758

Carrie Fountain

Penguin poets

"An acclaimed poet deepens her exploration of the domestic in a new collection of playful, wise, and humorous poems The poems in Carrie Fountain's third collection, The Life, exist somewhere, as Rilke says, between "our daily life" and "the great work"--an interstitial space where sidelong glances live alongside shouts to heaven. In elegant, colloquial language, Fountain observes her children dressing themselves in fledgling layers of personhood, creating their own private worlds and personalities, and makes room for genuine marvels in the midst of routine. Attuned to the delicate, fleeting moments that together comprise a life, these poems offer a guide by which to navigate the signs and symbols, and to pilot if not the perfect life, the only life, the life we are given"--, Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note:, I., The End, The Life, Poem On The Inside, Cold, The Beast Is Coming, After The Ascension, One Way, First, How Has Motherhood Changed The Way You Write?, The Parable Of The Gifts, The Student, Masha Eventually, Poem Made Of Revisions, Self-Help, The Answer, The Jungle, II., Poem With A Dream Of The Future In It, Short Poem With Insomnia, Summertime, Poem Making Change, Poem Without An Image, Will You?, The Question Of Your Youth, Domestic Aubade, How To Have A Happy Marriage, Lullaby After Bedtime, Poem With Our Marriage In It, Nothing Is Holy, Time To Be The Fine Line Of Light, Try Me, My Own American Poem, Poem From A Hotel Room On Christmas Morning, To White Noise, The Voice