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Flirt
Noah Blaustein
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Description for Flirt
Paperback. "The narrator of these poems flirts constantly--with women, with physical danger, with memory and grief, with form and sound. The poems are set in California and along the California border, and a few poems reflect upon his wife's childhood in El Salvador"--Provided by publisher. Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 145.
In this stunning first collection of poems, Noah Blaustein’s narrators face the complexities that shape a life: adolescence, fatherhood, our responsibility for the lives of others, the exhilaration of romantic love, and memory. These anxious, frequently witty poems flirt with physical danger, with grief and happiness, and with mortality as a means to transcend the mundane in our day-to-day lives. As the parent narrator says at the end of “Rave On”: “This / life of mine I now know / is no longer mine to take away.” While the narrator believes that there’s no person “that doesn’t benefit from some ... Read more
In this stunning first collection of poems, Noah Blaustein’s narrators face the complexities that shape a life: adolescence, fatherhood, our responsibility for the lives of others, the exhilaration of romantic love, and memory. These anxious, frequently witty poems flirt with physical danger, with grief and happiness, and with mortality as a means to transcend the mundane in our day-to-day lives. As the parent narrator says at the end of “Rave On”: “This / life of mine I now know / is no longer mine to take away.” While the narrator believes that there’s no person “that doesn’t benefit from some ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Series
Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826353832
SKU
V9780826353832
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About Noah Blaustein
Noah Blaustein is editor of the anthology Motion: American Sports Poems. His poems have been published in a variety of journals including Barrow Street, The Harvard Review, The Los Angeles Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Orion, and Pleiades.
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