On the Desire to Levitate
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On the Desire to Levitate

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On the Desire to LevitateOn the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adolescent girls as mythical adventurers moving within a beloved

On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adolescent girls as mythical adventurers moving within a beloved but confining Midwest. Yet in Powell's skillful hands, hardship never overtakes: as judge Charles Hood writes, "There's often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity."

Winner of the 2013 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 03/17/2014
ISBN: 9780821420980
Pages: 51
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 87
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