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Black Aperture - by Matt Rasmussen (Paperback)

Name: Black Aperture - by Matt Rasmussen (Paperback)
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2013 National Book Award FinalistIn his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor.
National Book Awards (Poetry) 2013 3rd Winner, Walt Whitman Award 2012 1st Winner
About the Author: Matt Rasmussen's poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, and at Poets.org.
72 Pages
Poetry, American

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2013 National Book Award Finalist
In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame of dead you / answering calls." In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, "a flower / of smoldering filaments." A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, "a tinfoil lake," "vegetables / dying in the crisper." Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning: damage and healing, sorrow and laughter, and torment balanced with moments of relief.

About the Author

Matt Rasmussen's poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, and at Poets.org. A founding coeditor of Birds LLC, a small, independent poetry press, he is a 2012-2013 McKnight Artist Fellow and teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.45 Inches (H) x 5.54 Inches (W) x .21 Inches (D)

Weight: .24 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 72

Genre: Poetry

Sub-Genre: American

Publisher: LSU Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Matt Rasmussen

Language: English

Street Date: May 13, 2013

TCIN: 88983020

UPC: 9780807150863

Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-7495

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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