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Informationen zum Autor Kara Candito's work has appeared in such journals as Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Best New Poets 2007, and the Florida Review. She has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference and the Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences Foundation. She has an MFA from the University of Maryland and is currently a PhD candidate and instructor at Florida State University. Klappentext In Kara Candito's prize-winning debut collection a "garish/human theatre" comes to life against richly textured geographic and psychic landscapes. These poems are high-speed meditations on a world where Walter Benjamin meets the "glitzy chain-link of Chanel scarves" and Puccini's "Tosca "meets the din of the Times Square subway station. Ferociously witty and intensely lyrical, "Taste of Cherry" speaks to us in a language that is simultaneously private and public, sensual and cerebral. Zusammenfassung In Kara Candito's prize-winning debut collection a ""garish/human theatre"" comes to life against richly textured geographic and psychic landscapes. These poems are high-speed meditations on a world where Walter Benjamin meets the ""glitzy chain-link of Chanel scarves"" and Puccini's Tosca meets the din of the Times Square subway station. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsOneSelf-Portrait with an Ice PickLa Bufera: Our Last Trip to SicilyFloristic Elegy for the Year I Lived with You in Coconut GroveNotes for a Novice FlâneurPostcard: I've Been Meaning to Write--Egypt Journal: The Poet's ConditionEgypt Journal: Christmas at the Great PyramidTwo. PortraitsCarnivale, 1934Epic Poem Concerning the Poet's Coming of Age as AttisGilead RedGirl in the GrassThreeTaste of CherryBarely Legal: Upon Finding My Father's PornA Necessary FictionHe Was Only Half as BeautifulCaliforniaSleeping with René MagrittePolarityStrange Zippers: A Poem in Which the Heroine _______The FittingOn the Occasion of Our Argument During a 1 Best Power Ballads CountdownLast HappinessNotes...
