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    The Day Every Day Is
    The Day Every Day Is
    The Day Every Day Is
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    The Day Every Day Is

    By Lee Upton

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    Whether crisp and understated or capacious and kinetic, the poems in Lee Upton' s seventh collection are lyrically dexterous and reverberant. Shrewd, formally ambitious, excavating cultural myths and contradictions, these poems allow the ordinary and the supernatural to inhabit one another. The poems are often attentive to suffering: torture as it persists through centuries, the extinction of species, and the agonies of illness, grief, and the blasting of innocence are meditated upon. At the same time, in this book of mysteries, the cultivation of the redemptive energy of wit, in favor of the sensual and tender, performs as a means to resist violence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaturnalia Books
    Release dateMar 15, 2023
    ISBN9781947817517
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