Full name: Odessa: Poems

Author: Patricia Kirkpatrick Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781571314567 1571314563

A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Kirkpatrick'€™s Odessa fighting for her life. The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the '€œemotional core of the self,'€ and central to the process of memory. In poems endowed with this emotional charge but void of sentimentality, Kirkpatrick sets out to recreate what was lost by fashioning a dreamlike reality. Odessa, '€œroof of the underworld,'€ a refuge at once real and imagined, resembles simultaneously the Midwestern prairie and a mythical god-inhabited city. In image-packed lines bearing shades of Classical heroism, Kirkpatrick delivers a personal narrative of stunning dimension. Similar books: New and Selected Poems: Volume 2 by Mary Oliver The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Crush by Richard Siken Citizen by Claudia Rankine Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell In My Head by J. M. Storm I Heard God Laughing by Hafiz Devotions by Mary Oliver Thirst by Mary Oliver Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch Counting Descent by Clint Smith Dead Man's Float by Jim Harrison Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson Without by Donald Hall Winter Morning Walks by Ted Kooser Alma, or The Dead Women by Alice Notley Darkness Spoken by Ingeborg Bachmann No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay