The Curious Thing
Poems
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 68 pages ; 21 cm
"In this gorgeous third collection, Sandra Lim investigates desire, sexuality, and dream with sinewy intelligence and a startling freshness. Intense and searching, the poems of The Curious Thing explore passion, self-scrutiny, and female rage with glittering precision and peerless fluency. Lim writes fearless lyrics anchored by generosity, stinging wit, and a tough-minded approach to her own experiences. With fiery emotional clarity and a "whistle-in-the-dark bravado," these poems reveal "a mind studying itself and its ambivalence, exact at every turn, and by the end, breathtaking" (Louise Glück)"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The Protagonists -- Chicago -- Something Means Everything -- Jean Rhys -- The Immoralists -- Chanson Douce -- The Future -- Boston -- Black Box -- Theme and Variation -- Pastoral -- The Stronger -- Bent Lyre -- Pastoral -- Classics -- Portrait in Summer -- Barking Noises -- Naxos -- Endings -- The Beginning of Spring -- That Are -- Spinoza Says -- San Francisco -- Refuseniks -- The Absolutist -- Summer Terror -- A Walk Round the Park -- A Shaggy Dog Story -- The Mountaintop -- April -- Happiness.
Subjects:
American poetry -- Asian American authors.
POETRY / American / Asian American.
POETRY / Women Authors.
American poetry -- Asian American authors.
POETRY / American / Asian American.
POETRY / Women Authors.
ISBN:
9780393867893
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Lim | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Massachusetts Book Awards Must-Read Book (Poetry), 2022