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Miracle Fruit
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780971031081 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
As three worlds collide, a mother's Philippines, a father's India, and the poet's contemporary America, the resulting impressions are chronicled in this collection of incisive and penetrating verse. The writer weaves her words carefully into a wise and affecting embroidery that celebrates the senses while remaining down-to-earth and genuine.
Review:
"In these fine and searching poems, Nezhukumatathil pushes and grabs at the world, wanting more and striving to name what cannot be named. As she does we see that everything is in fact miracle fruit, including this book itself." Andrew Hudgins
Review:
"Aimee Nezhukumatathil is able to handle serious subjects with the lightest of touches. Her edgy humor and keen eye keep her poems buoyant and fresh." Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate
Review:
"Aimee Nezhukumatathil's delightful poems celebrate the glories of the tongue, in both senses of the word. I can think of no other poet — except Neruda — who has inscribed the sensual world with such accurate charm....Aimee Nezhukumatathil understands the loving and funny relations between mother and daughter. She understands the folkways of India and Ohio, and she might be the only American poet who can swear in Tagalog. Her poems are seriously delicious: toothsome and saucy, wise and mischievous." Alice Fulton
Review:
When language, sensory experience, and imagination meet and mingle in an inventive and convincing way, we have the ingredients for those moments of grace that characterize important poems. Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Miracle Fruit is rich in such luscious moments. Every line is alive with the excitement of what can be known about the world, every poem bursting with an eagerness to share it." Gregory Orr, Judge, Second Annual Tupelo Press Poetry Competition
Synopsis:
As three worlds collide, a mother's Philippines, a father's India and the poet's contemporary America, the resulting impressions are chronicled in this collection of incisive and penetrating verse. The writer weaves her words carefully into a wise and affecting embroidery that celebrates the senses while remaining down-to-earth and genuine.
"We see that everything is in fact miracle fruit, including this book itself."-Andrew Hudgins
Aimee Nezhukumatathilwas the Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin. She received her B.A. and M.F.A. in poetry and creative nonfiction from Ohio State University. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the State University of New York in Fredonia.
About the Author
Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago in 1974. Her father is from India, her mother from the Phillipines. She received her BA and MFA in poetry and creative non-fiction from Ohio State University. She is the author of the chapbook Fishbone,and was the Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Institute for Creative Writing at the Univ of Wisconsin. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the State University of New York, Fredonia.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780971031081
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Tupelo Press
- Location:
- Dorset, Vt.
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- American - General
- Subject:
- General Poetry
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Number:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Edition Description:
- Pbk
- Series Volume:
- 562
- Publication Date:
- April 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 86
- Dimensions:
- 9 x 6 in
