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A collection of poems that explores the joys and pains of the world through speaking objects, including the poems grouped under the headings "October Farm," "City of Windows," and "The Actual World"
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Joyce Carol Oates counts herself among Erica Funkhouser's admirers, pointing to Funkhouser's "unusual clarity of vision and language." The real strength of The Actual World is Funkhouser's dramatic poems. In it she has dusted off and jump-started the legends of Louisa May Alcott and Annie Oakley, among others. Funkhouser demonstrates her ability to imaginatively project herself into a situation and carry the reader with her. The voice she has found in "The Dog" is especially appealing: "I love how he rows his fingers / the wrong way through the fur on my back, / pulling and growling and lifting his heels / as if he were the one being pleased."
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Erica Funkhouser is the author of four previous books of poems, including Pursuit and The Actual World. She is a lecturer in the department of writing and humanistic studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lives in Essex, Massachusetts.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0395877075
- ISBN 13 9780395877074
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages85
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