The Empress of Kisses explores the landscape of thehuman heart through free and formal verse. The poems chronicle a wide variety of relationships past and present, real and imagined, with family, friends, lovers, pop culture icons, mythological figures,historical events, and with words themselves. The collection features a special focus on the experiences of Generation X, the “forgotten generation.”
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Gwen Hart
EAN: 9781680030891
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 120 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Texas Review Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-04-15
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GENRE: POETRY / American / General
WIDTH: 152 cm
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"Who wouldn't want to while away the hours with The Empress of Kisses? This book offers all the pleasures that poetry affords -- sonic felicities, skilled wordplay, resonant insights, and unexpected destinations. Often working with received forms, Gwen Hard writers with authority of classical subjects (Eve, Galatea) but also displays brio and playfulness when using sonnets and villanelles to investigate Molly Ringwald's lips or Rubik's Cubes, setting up productive tension between her subjects and her means of addressing them. This is a delightful and memorable book." -Beth Ann Fennelly Final Judge.
Gwen Hart teaches writing at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, USA and is the author of several chapbooks and the poetry collection Lost and Found.
