- Paperback: 65 pages
- Publisher: Four Way Books (15 Dec 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1884800718
- ISBN-13: 978-1884800719
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 16.2 x 0.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,138,436 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kathryn Maris tracks the occupations and preoccupations of a young speaker from post-collegiate funk and despair through a variety of identity-crushing and identity-configuring encounters. Motherhood, employment, urban threats and pleasures, illness and wellness, and the making and the observing of art contribute to her quest for an answer to the question, "What do you do?" Her heart is ever in evidence in these carefully hewn, emotionally bracing lyric poems.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Funny, sad, touching and a nice piece of design. According to Maris (in Oxford Poets 2010) she writes both 'British Poems' and 'American Poems'(!) and I can only say of the English volume 'Bring it on!'
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6 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback
A lovely first collection - handsome, too - from someone who, as they say, 'divides her time' between our shores - funny, sad, touching
A distinctive, original, passionate, 'word skilled' voice
8 July 2007
Format:Paperback
The free verse poetry of Kathryn Maris offers a distinctive, original, passionate, 'word skilled' voice that will engage both the mind and the imagination. The profusely imaged poetry comprising "The Book Of Jobs" will well serve to introduce Kathryn's poetic wit and lyrical wisdom to an appreciative readership and is enthusiastically recommended for personal, academic, and community library Contemporary Poetry collections. 'The Heart that Works': In my abdomen there is a heart that works./For how long will it work? Will it work/if the heart in my chest is tethered or skewed?//Will it work in the artificial light, in the soup/of the Day, or when a song becomes a feint?/Will it work? Will it work?//O swift, regular beats on the incommensurate screen,/is a heart that works a heart that lurks behind the world?/You inside me, I envy you your working heart.//But will it work in the morning? Will it work insofar/as I haven't erred by bringing it to earth?/Will it work in the icy absence of others of its kind?
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