The Do-Over

Kirjan The Do-Over (2015) on kirjoittanut Kathleen Ossip. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Sarabande Books, Incorporated. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 96 sivua ja se on pokkari.

A much anticipated third collection with poems mourning a mother figure, as well as recently deceased cultural icons. Praise for Kathleen Ossip: ? Ossip conjures delightful and unexpected muses? shrewd and ambitious. ” ? New York Times Book Review "The Do-Over, Ossip’s third collection, is a lyrical, open-ended, meta-leaning meditation on the subject of death? .[A]n exquisite cocktail of displacement, minutiae, and metapoetic introspection. " ? Boston Review ? The biggest surprise in poetry for 2011 is this second book by Kathleen Ossip. It’s got everything one could wish for in a new collection of poems. . . . It’s just beautiful. And terrifying. ” ? Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2011 ? The poet has an uncanny ability to convey what it actually feels like to be alive today? Ossip is one of our foremost ethnographers of contemporary unreality. ” ? The Believer ? How do you stay in heaven? ” Ossip asks, ? Is it a kind of sophisticated rewind? ” Her third collection of poems is haunted by the idea of ? rewind,’ and especially by the teasing possibility that we, too? like the moon, like a plant? may be granted cycles of life, death, and rebirth. The book's overarching narrative is the death of the poet’s stepmother-in-law, a cherished, loving, eccentric woman who returns to its pages again and again. But in spite of its focused grief and ontological urgency, The Do-Over is a varied collection? short acrostics mourn recently dead cultural icons (Amy Winehouse, Steve Jobs, Donna Summer); there's an ode to an anonymous Chinese factory worker, three ? true stories” that read like anecdotes told over drinks, and more. The Do-Over is an unsentimental elegy to a mother figure, a fragmented portrait of its difficult, much loved subject. It's also a snapshot of our death-obsessed, death-denying cultural moment, which in Ossip's gifted hands turns out to be tremulous, skeptical, unsure of ultimate values and, increasingly, driven to find them. ? I am still studying, aren’t you? ” she begins. Readers will eagerly embrace the surprise, humor, and seriousness of her quest.