The Post-Rapture Diner (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Dorothy Barresi
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""[In The Post-Rapture Diner] the brashness and sadness of our polyglot nation is given voice. Dorothy Barresi speaks in tongues - of 'undetonated cherubs, ' sitcoms, and agents provocateurs. Her toughminded, eloquent poems articulate family tangles, unintentional cruelties, innocenc and sophistication. ... The Post-Rapture Diner creates a language commensurate to the ethical complexities of this particular American moment and to the ongoing human dilemma.""--Alice Fulton""[This] new book of show more poetry imagines southern California as a vast, hot, flat desert wasteland that revises T.S. Eliot's show lessTags
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Dorothy Barresi's first book of poems, All of the Above, won the 1990 Barnard College New Women Poets Prize. Her second book, The Post-Rapture Diner, won an American Book Award in 1997. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons
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