The Clever Dream Of Man [ Signed & Inscribed By The Author]

Houston, Lynn Marie

ISBN 10: 0692487956 / ISBN 13: 9780692487952

Published by Aldrich Press, 2015

About this Item

Signed by the author on the title page. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, signed with first name only. ; 8.70 X 6.10 X 0.30 inches; 52 pages.

Seller Inventory # 286042

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Clever Dream Of Man [ Signed & Inscribed By The Author]
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692487956
• ISBN 13: 9780692487952
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The Clever Dream of Man is a book full of engaging tensions. Part indictment, part forgiveness, its energy is guided by a skilled poet who is not afraid to examine the world with precision in her aim. One important thing about this, though: some of these poems are like rifles examining a target; others are like blessings aimed at the world. What Lynn Houston shoots: a song of anger, angst, and mercy. The target she hits: us. But instead of bleeding from it, we become a little more alive.
—BJ Ward, Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems
Lynn Houston’s poems are serious and sexy, uncompromising and rich. Her sure eye captures a world where swans move with an “awkward gait not made for earth” and humans, too, traverse the planet simultaneously mired and on the wing. Houston writes of those who have known grief, yet whose travels “in this topography of loss” yield indefatigable hope. In her refreshingly quirky world, appliances speak like sages, and Lilith, Persephone and Barbie get in some last words.
Deeply grounded in the complex primacy of human experience, The Clever Dream of Man is a vital and beautiful collection. —Catherine Doty, Momentum

About the Author

Lynn Marie Houston’s poems have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Poydras Review, Hartskill Review, Alyss, Boston Literary Magazine, Uppagus, 3Elements Review, and Extract(s), among others. She is the author of The Poet’s Playground, a book of poetry exercises for beginners. After graduating from Hartwick College and spending time in Switzerland on a Fulbright grant, Houston earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University. She now lives in a vintage Airstream camper on the East Coast. When she isn’t teaching English, she tends her honeybees and kayaks local rivers.