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The Book of Jobs

Poems

By Maris, Kathryn

Publishers Summary:
Kathryn Maris tracks the occupations and preoccupations of a young speaker from post-collegiate funk and despair through a variety of identity-crushing and identity-configuring encounters. Motherhood, employment, urban threats and pleasures, illness and wellness, and the making and the observing of art contribute to her quest for an answer to the question, "What do you do?" Her heart is ever in evidence in these carefully hewn, emotionally bracing lyric poems.

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978-1-88480-071-9
Publisher
Four Way Books


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Reviewed on October 2, 2006

Maris' agreeable, if at times insubstantial, first outing explores not suffering (as in the Biblical Job) but occupations: vocations, professions, trades, ways to work for a living, and the nature of works of art. Her verbal flourishes fit the topic well: "What is work anyway," she asks, "but a turgid mirror// whose revelations quiver/ in recalculation?" Maris' roster of roles includes locksmiths and banke...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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