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Paperback Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil Book

ISBN: 1556592167

ISBN13: 9781556592164

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

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C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time "to cool" after receiving an injury or an insult he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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King Lear Blues

C.D. Wright has been afflicting the comfortable in poetry for some time now. Her poems amount to a continuing revolution. "Cooling Time" demonstrates form in order to talk about form: essays blur their borders with poems, lyrical meditations and diamond sharp bits of memoir. The relationship between her thinking and her feeling is seamless. And you can hear her as you read: demotic, classical, and wicked smart. Lear gets down with backwoods. Any poet who wants his mojo reactivated would be well served to read this book. Read it in little bursts like attacks of carnal love. Rest in between. Then reread. This book is like really fine spicy collard greens.
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