ALT MEANS OF TRANSPORT (Knopf Poetry) - Hardcover
Poems explore themes such as love, death, the natural world, and the connections between people
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MacDonald's fourth full-length collection showcases once again her fascination with unconventional diction, the ironicoften surprisingrelationships between words themselves, and the networks of imagery that develop from those relationships. Crammed with headnotes, puns, and not-so-free associations, MacDonald's surreal, often cartoon-like narratives seem less concerned with causal events than in the ripple effects of the language used to relate them, their verbal/imagistic links sometimes sloshing over into the next poem. In the words of the title piecea 17-part kaleidoscope of hats, butterflies, angels, and metaphysicsthis book is ``a commotion, synchronized as/ The word tells us, amazing in such a small place . . . .'' Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0394543866
- ISBN 13 9780394543864
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages76
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Book Description First edition. Burgundy cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 76 pp. Number 19 in the Knopf Poetry Series, the author's fourth collection. Fine in a fine DJ. McDonald who began her artistic career as an opera singer was a late starter as a poet. She founded with Stanley Plumly one of the great creative writing programs at the University of Houston where she was the long-time director. She died in August 2015 at 87. Seller Inventory # 64363
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