· by. Kim Addonizio (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · ratings · 47 reviews. Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart, Three-person’d God” /5. · Publisher Description. “Kim Addonizio’s voice lifts from the page, alive and biting—unleashing wit with a ruthless observation.”—San Francisco Book Review. Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands,” canonical poems are torqued into new www.doorway.rury: Free. Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her collection, Mortal Trash, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for /5(29).
Mortal Trash Kim Addonizio. Norton, $ (p) ISBN Addonizio adeptly draws themes out into absurdity in such instructional poems as "Introduction to Poetry," in which. The poet, Kim Addonizio, lives in California, and her most recent book is Mortal Trash (W. W. Norton, ). Aquarium The fish are drifting calmly in their tank. This is good advice when reading Mortal Trash by Kim Addonizio. Addonizio has had an outstanding career as a poet. She joins an "anthology" of Norton writers whose work shape our literary landscape. There is kinetic energy in many of Addonizio's poems. This is created by images that play tag, hopscotch, DoubleDutch from one line to the other.
Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her collection, Mortal Trash, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among other honors. Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections, among them Tell Me, a National Book Award finalist, and Mortal Trash, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her prose work includes two story collections; a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life ; and two books on writing poetry, The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Mortal Trash (W. W. Norton Company, ) is a collection of handfuls: odes to old friends and family members, instructional poems about what poetry isn’t, simple pleads for answers. There’s a eulogy at the end, as if we’ve just died. We all follow Addonizio to heaven: “I saw God/ in a cumulus cloud./ Angels gathered on my library card.”.
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