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Overview"From discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco's X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a speaker identified only as X reviews personal history and relationships, speculating, pondering, and questioning in the face of a baffling universe. Peppered between the X poems, artists as varied as Artemisia Gentileschi, Frank O'Connor, and Nick Cave surface, usually in poems posing as essays about their art. Other poems range from explorations of cultural perspective, as in ""A Few Words to a Young American Killed in the Tet Offensive,"" where a war resister addresses a young man of his generation who died in Vietnam, to the often playful ""An Alphabet of Things."" Throughout, Falco's poems speculate on matters of life and faith, intensified by an awareness of death." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ed FalcoPublisher: Louisiana State University Press Imprint: Louisiana State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780807179208ISBN 10: 0807179205 Pages: 76 Publication Date: 31 January 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock ![]() We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""Both smart and heartfelt, these poems are meant to be not nibbled but devoured, again and again.""--David Kirby ""In its masterful control of language and form, its clarity and layered complexity, this book is itself a work of beauty, one that will last for a long while.""--Eric Nelson ""X in the Tickseed is a gorgeous, riveting meditation on memory, mortality, art-making, and the complications of living. Equal parts lyric, narrative, and philosophical, Ed Falco's poems remind us that the world is beautiful and terrible in equal measures.""--Erika Meitner" Author InformationEd Falco is the author of a dozen books, including novels, short story collections, and poetry. A recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry from the Southern Review and the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction from the Virginia Quarterly Review, he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Virginia Tech. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |