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Beautiful Zero: Poems
Contributor(s): Willoughby, Jennifer (Author)

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ISBN: 1571314806     ISBN-13: 9781571314802
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2015022371
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.2" W x 8.3" L (0.10 lbs) 96 pages
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/21/2015
 
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Incantatory, intimate, and incendiary, the poems of this award-winning debut are filled with explosive wit and humor like "a knife you don't see coming." A kaleidoscopic intelligence flows through Beautiful Zero, embracing forms of culture high and low in effort to finding meaning in the chaos. Poems about Shark Week and college football sit beside Roman Polanski and biting critiques of modern war. A series of poems set in a Kaiser Permanente hospital tear into the world of privatized health care while simultaneously charting a story of love in the face of catastrophe. Yet even at her most surreal, Willoughby always finds the pulsing heart at the core of the poem. She embraces what she cannot understand about both the world and herself because after all, "Nothing is as random as they say it is. / You were born the weirdo that you are."
 
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