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The Nature of Things Fragile

Name: The Nature of Things Fragile
Author: Peter Vertacnik

Poems

Peter Vertacnik,

96 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

The Nature of Things Fragile

Poems

Peter Vertacnik,

About this book

In his debut poetry collection, The Nature of Things Fragile, Peter Vertacnikdepicts a world fraught with vulnerabilityand loss. Utilizing a wide range of bothreceived and nonce poetic forms, includingsonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina, epigrams, blank verse, and word-count, he confronts the illnesses and deaths ofloved ones, both recent and long past("Face Value, " "Odd Elegy, " "Trace, ");the memories of old houses and townsleft behind ("Departure, " Sugar Beets, ""Mourning Doves"); and the vanishingof once-ubiquitous analog particulars("Apology to Candles, " "Dial Tone, " "InPraise of Blank Cassettes"). It is indeed abook of elegies, but one that also celebratesthe people, places, and things itlaments, preserving their names anddetails while laying them to rest.

The Nature of Things Fragile is the winnerof the twenty-third New CriterionPoetry Prize.

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