Death of a Ventriloquist

by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2011.
This debut collection includes love songs and prayers, palinodes and pleas, short histories and tragic tales as well as a series of ventriloquist poems that track the epiphanies and consequences of speaking in a voice other than one's own. Other poems speak to a Beloved and the highs and lows of parenthood and personhood--all with music and verve, with formal dexterity, with sadness and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157441447X
• ISBN13: 9781574414479
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"