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Atlas (04 Edition)

by Katrina Vandenberg

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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.

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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.

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Larry Dean, September 27, 2006 (view all comments by Larry Dean)
Each poem in this debut collection reads like the work of a poet with years of experience under their belt. A moving and remarkable first book.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781571314192
Author:
Vandenberg, Katrina
Publisher:
Milkweed Editions
Location:
Minneapolis, Minn.
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Netherlands
Subject:
Poetry, American
Subject:
Hemophiliacs
Subject:
HIV-positive men
Subject:
Single Author / American
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
no. 448
Publication Date:
September 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
128
Dimensions:
9.02x6.36x.30 in. .32 lbs.

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