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A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poet

In those days I began to see light under every
bushel basket, light nearly splitting
the sides of the bushel basket. Light came
through the rafters of the dairy where the grackles
congregated like well-taxed citizens
untransfigured even by hope. Understand I was the one
underneath the basket. I was certain I had nothing to say.
When I grew restless in the interior,
the exterior gave.

Dense, rich, and challenging, Katie Peterson's A Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure, and shelter. Imbued with a hallucinatory poetic logic where desire, anger, and sorrow supplant intelligence and reason, these poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship, and happiness. Learned, wise, and witty, Peterson explodes the possibilities of the poetic voice in this rema

A Piece of Good News

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/02/2020
      ISBN13: 9780374538880, 978-0374538880
      ISBN10: 0374538883

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poet

      In those days I began to see light under every
      bushel basket, light nearly splitting
      the sides of the bushel basket. Light came
      through the rafters of the dairy where the grackles
      congregated like well-taxed citizens
      untransfigured even by hope. Understand I was the one
      underneath the basket. I was certain I had nothing to say.
      When I grew restless in the interior,
      the exterior gave.

      Dense, rich, and challenging, Katie Peterson's A Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure, and shelter. Imbued with a hallucinatory poetic logic where desire, anger, and sorrow supplant intelligence and reason, these poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship, and happiness. Learned, wise, and witty, Peterson explodes the possibilities of the poetic voice in this rema

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