Description: "The brightest and most inviting of Burt's collections for readers of any, all, and no genders."--Boston ReviewAdvice from the Lights is a brilliant and candid exploration of gender and identity and a series of looks at a formative past. It's part nostalgia, part confusion, and part an ongoing wondering: How do any of us achieve adulthood? And why would we want to, if we had the choice? This collection is woven from and interrupted by extraordinary sequences, including Stephanie poems about Stephen's female self; poems on particular years of the poet's early life, each with its own memories, desires, insecurities, and pop songs; and versions of poems by the Greek poet Callimachus, whose present-day incarnation worries (who doesn't?) about mortality, the favor of the gods, and the career of Taylor Swift. The collection also includes poems on politics, location, and parenthood. Taken all together, this is Stephen Burt's most personal and most accomplished collection, an essential work that asks who we are, how we become ourselves, and why we make art.
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EAN: 9781555977894
UPC: 9781555977894
ISBN: 9781555977894
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Book Title: Advice from the Lights : Poems
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: American / General
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Stephanie Burt
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback