Odessa

Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick, Milkweed Editions
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Author: Patricia Kirkpatrick ISBN: 9781571318930
Publisher: Milkweed Editions Publication: December 17, 2012
Imprint: Milkweed Editions Language: English
Author: Patricia Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 9781571318930
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Publication: December 17, 2012
Imprint: Milkweed Editions
Language: English

A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Kirkpatrick’s Odessa fighting for her life. The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the “emotional core of the self,” and central to the process of memory. In poems endowed with this emotional charge but void of sentimentality, Kirkpatrick sets out to recreate what was lost by fashioning a dreamlike reality. Odessa, “roof of the underworld,” a refuge at once real and imagined, resembles simultaneously the Midwestern prairie and a mythical god-inhabited city. In image-packed lines bearing shades of Classical heroism, Kirkpatrick delivers a personal narrative of stunning dimension.

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A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Kirkpatrick’s Odessa fighting for her life. The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the “emotional core of the self,” and central to the process of memory. In poems endowed with this emotional charge but void of sentimentality, Kirkpatrick sets out to recreate what was lost by fashioning a dreamlike reality. Odessa, “roof of the underworld,” a refuge at once real and imagined, resembles simultaneously the Midwestern prairie and a mythical god-inhabited city. In image-packed lines bearing shades of Classical heroism, Kirkpatrick delivers a personal narrative of stunning dimension.

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