Bibliograph

Mothman apologia, Robert Wood Lynn ; foreword by Rae Armantrout

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Mothman apologia, Robert Wood Lynn ; foreword by Rae Armantrout

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Mothman apologia

Oclc number

1262190076

Responsibility statement

Robert Wood Lynn ; foreword by Rae Armantrout

Series statement

Yale Series of Younger Poets, volume 116

Summary

"Robert Wood Lynn's collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the saturation points of knowledge: those moments when the acquisition of understanding overlaps with regret and becomes a desire to know less. Comprising poems of place set across the Virginias, this collection includes an episodic elegy exploring the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley as well as a separate series of persona poems reimagining the Mothman (West Virginia's famed cryptid) reluctantly coming of age in that state's mountains and struggling with the utility of warnings. These are narrative poems of love and grief, built from a storytelling tradition. Taken together they form an arc encompassing the experience of growing up, looking away, and looking back. This collection was selected by prestigious poet Rae Armantrout to become the 116th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets."--, Provided by publisher

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