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Collins's ( The Arrangement of Space ) stunning graphic poems achieve a perfect balance of the horrific and the playful. "We bought the guns, our money / burned the crops. / (But hey, kids, we're still / your folks--we name our planes / for girls, our bombs for boys)," she writes in one poem; another begins with the image of "the friendly caboose" passing through farmland and goes on to describe cattle cars carrying children to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps. With a few deft strokes, Collins endows the merely topical (the Gulf War, the news story about a murdered woman whose intestines were torn out) with universal dimensions. Poems rewriting fairy tales are every bit the equal of similar efforts by Anne Sexton. The intensity of all of Collins's poems might be their most memorable quality, but such fervor could not be realized if she did not have impeccable facility with language. She delights in wordplay: "The funeral march is a children's chant: /dum-dum-dum, he is dumb-and-done-and-gone." The volume's arrangement expertly juxtaposes related themes, resembling a focussed camera's panning, stopping now here, now there.
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- PublisherUniv of Georgia Pr
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0820315052
- ISBN 13 9780820315058
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages62
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. First printing, full number line (1-5). Inscribed, signed, and dated by the author on the title page: "For Mary Alice Matthews / Still my muse, after all these grateful years-- / Martha Collins / December 1996." Collins's third book of poems, it was a co-winner of the 1990 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Book is tight and unmarked; spine is slightly slanted; spine and wraps uncreased; no edgewear. Sleeve protected. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001793
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in glossy pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Collins on the title page to fellow poet, Sally Appleton Weber: "For Sally Appleton Weber, good friend of a good friend- I look forward to meeting you! Martha Collins.". Seller Inventory # 520297
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