Paradise, Indiana : Poems
by
Bruce Snider
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award
ISBN-10
0807145513
ISBN-13
9780807145517
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 16th, 2012
Print length
72 Pages
Weight
333 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 0.60 cms
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Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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A father and son shovel snow; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home to die. At the centre of it all, a teenage boy's suicide resonates through the lives of those closest to him. The poems in this collection describe a place where mundane events neighbour the most harrowing.
A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home to die. At the center of it all, a teenage boy's suicide resonates through the lives of those closest to him. The poems in Bruce Snider's Paradise, Indiana describe a place where mundane events neighbor the most harrowing.
Shaped by the author's experiences growing up in rural Indiana, Snider investigates the landscapes traditionally claimed by male poets such as James Wright, James Dickey, and Richard Hugo, whose visions of place rarely, if ever, included the presence of gays and lesbians. Paradise, Indiana envisions a seldom recorded rural America, one where everything exists side by side: the county fair and an abandoned small town gay bar, farmers and cross-dressers, death and hope, beauty and despair.
Shaped by the author's experiences growing up in rural Indiana, Snider investigates the landscapes traditionally claimed by male poets such as James Wright, James Dickey, and Richard Hugo, whose visions of place rarely, if ever, included the presence of gays and lesbians. Paradise, Indiana envisions a seldom recorded rural America, one where everything exists side by side: the county fair and an abandoned small town gay bar, farmers and cross-dressers, death and hope, beauty and despair.
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