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More copies of this ISBN:Atlasby Katrina Vandenberg
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This debut collection of poetry by Katrina Vandenberg draws on different meanings of the title, carrying lines from one poem to the next and capturing the reverberations of events across time and place. One poem links an image of the poet's sister — paused in housekeeping work — to a maid in a Vermeer painting and a woman being "made over" on "Oprah." Another compares an ex-lover's HIV to a 19th-century tulip epidemic. Quiet yet forthright, intimate yet generous, Vandenberg's poems map the intersections of history, art, love, death, and desire.
Synopsis:Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking, describes Atlas as "a mighty work in words" the plots the intersections of love, death, history, art, and desire. One section links the tainted blood of a former partner--a hemophiliac with AIDS--to the virus that made tulips so rare and remarkable during the famous "Tulipomania" of the seventeenth-century. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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