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Mothman Apologia

Robert Wood Lynn
4.51/5 (303 ratings)
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This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age
 
“ Mothman Apologia . . . hits a lilting, Larry Levis-esque register, both elegiac and witty.”—Elisa Gabbert, New York Times , “The Best Poetry of 2022”
 
“These poems name the hurt wrought upon the meek that makes the elegy, here, as much an exaltation of the living as a mournful dirge for the land.”—Major Jackson, Vanderbilt University
 
Robert Wood Lynn’s collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the saturation points of knowledge: those moments when the acquisition of understanding overlaps with regret and becomes a desire to know less. Comprising poems of place set across the Virginias, this collection includes an episodic elegy exploring the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley as well as a separate series of persona poems reimagining the Mothman (West Virginia’s famed cryptid) reluctantly coming of age in that state’s mountains and struggling with the utility of warnings. These are narrative poems of love and grief, built from a storytelling tradition. Taken together they form an arc encompassing the experience of growing up, looking away, and looking back.
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ISBN10:
030026108X
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9780300261080
kindle Asin:
030026108X

Mothman Apologia

Robert Wood Lynn
4.51/5 (303 ratings)
Read Download
This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age
 
“ Mothman Apologia . . . hits a lilting, Larry Levis-esque register, both elegiac and witty.”—Elisa Gabbert, New York Times , “The Best Poetry of 2022”
 
“These poems name the hurt wrought upon the meek that makes the elegy, here, as much an exaltation of the living as a mournful dirge for the land.”—Major Jackson, Vanderbilt University
 
Robert Wood Lynn’s collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the saturation points of knowledge: those moments when the acquisition of understanding overlaps with regret and becomes a desire to know less. Comprising poems of place set across the Virginias, this collection includes an episodic elegy exploring the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley as well as a separate series of persona poems reimagining the Mothman (West Virginia’s famed cryptid) reluctantly coming of age in that state’s mountains and struggling with the utility of warnings. These are narrative poems of love and grief, built from a storytelling tradition. Taken together they form an arc encompassing the experience of growing up, looking away, and looking back.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
030026108X
ISBN13:
9780300261080
kindle Asin:
030026108X

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