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The Truant Lover: Poems
Finalist:Lambda Literary Award -Lesbian Poetry (2006)
Juliet Patterson's first collection of poems, The Truant Lover, selected by Jean Valentine, is a pastiche of American voices, a well of poems with passages that hint and nod at past poets while remaining wholly their own.
Book Details
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- Publish Date: Mar 15th, 2006
- Pages: 74
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.40in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9780976718529
- Categories: • American - General• American - General
Praise for this book
"Juliet Patterson's poems are entirely themselves; they use time and the eye and tongue--all the body, as thought and insight, inside and outside history. The Truant Lover is a marvel."--Jean Valentine
Spare, pastoral, intimate, and probing, these musically exacting poems offer arresting insights: "Here's a world for today: // killing & not dying / fantastically, not lying." They question, invent, refer, divert, take flying risks. They are fluid, considered, dignified. They celebrate the human eye, mind, and tongue. It is a joy to have them in print.--Olga Broumas
"...Patterson has crafted a far reaching first book that blends self-interrogation with metaphysical inquiry. Both Patterson and Nightboat show great promise.--Publisher's Weekly