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    The Beds
    The Beds
    The Beds
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    The Beds

    By Martha Rhodes

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    In The Beds, award-winning poet Martha Rhodes skillfully navigates a tonally complex terrain. Rhodes’ fourth collection mixes form and free-verse, specifically using the rondelet’s tight, obsessive repetition as a means to harness and modulate frenetic content.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAutumn House Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2012
    ISBN9781637680506
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      In this collection, Rhodes pens a contemporary lyric that deals with illness, love, and lacking. She uses various metaphors and conceits throughout, in addition to what seems purposefully placed and employed bits of disarmingly prosaic phrases. Her techniques and style work better in some poems than others, but the best poems here are pointed and inventive portrayals of midlife entropy.

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