frank: sonnets
by Diane Seuss
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Pub Date Mar 02 2021 | Archive Date Apr 02 2021
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Description
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION
WINNER OF THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY
A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
“The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,” Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss’s working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction, Christ and motherhood, showing us what we can do, what we can do without, and what we offer to one another when we have nothing left to spare. Like a series of cels on a filmstrip, frank: sonnets captures the magnitude of a life lived honestly, a restless search for some kind of “beauty or relief.” Seuss is at the height of her powers, devastatingly astute, austere, and—in a word—frank.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
Praise for Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl:
“By the end of the book, everything is larger and more vibrant—the paintings, the speaker’s life, the reader and the world.”—Los Angeles Times
“Death, class, gender and art are among the entwined preoccupations in this marvelous, complex, attractive, frightening book.”—The New York Times Book Review
Praise for Four-Legged Girl:
"A richly improvisational poetry collection that leads readers through a gallery of incisive and beguiling portraits and landscapes."—Pulitzer Prize finalist citation
“A great passion issues from the pages of Four-Legged Girl. . . . This book is a wise, wild, continuous gift. It will make you lean in and listen; it will make you this poet’s devotee. These poems are tremendous in every way. Diane Seuss: holy smoke!”—Terrance Hayes
Praise for Diane Seuss
“The picturesque and the grotesque pair flawlessly in Seuss’s poems, and even gore has an abject charm. . . . She admires art without forgetting that it’s only a facsimile; she questions whether reality, with all of its texture and dimensionality, can be known at all.”—The New Yorker
“Seuss [has] access to that sacred place high in the ozone where experience, deep feeling, memory, love and killer metaphors hover. . . . Objects come alive, like toys springing from a chest when darkness comes.”—The Rumpus
“Endlessly inventive with her language and feats of imagination, Seuss makes a world full of the trappings of death feel vibrantly alive.”—Publishers Weekly
“Seuss blazes up into the dark and dirty corners of youthful folly, in poems that are visually sharp and linguistically alive; her voice is lucid, earthy, mordant, and funny.”—Dana Levin
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781644450451 |
| PRICE | $18.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 152 |
