Heat Wake
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0996220623 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Mixing science with humor, humanity, whimsy, and love, Jason Zuzga’s debut collection is a revelation
Poems to soothe a heart These poems!! These poems are like private, personal little odysseys into strange, uncanny landscapes of flora, fauna, rocks and the even more surreal terrain of human emotion. They're odysseys where you move around images of whimsy and fantasy and play. And somewhere a. Beauty in science and suburbia Beautiful beautiful poetry, celebrating both nature and suburbia. It's a combination of science with everyday sense and experiences that can't be found elsewhere.
These gentle touches bloom all the more brightly under Zuzga’s zoological bell jar, placing a real human heartbeat in the menagerie. From Publishers Weekly Zuzga’s debut collection grows out of the intersection of myth and nature, like a simmering volcano of animal intensity that occasionally erupts in expressions that alternate between euphoria and lament. He establishes this strange amalgam from the opening lines of the first poem: “All rocks are queer. By this I mean/ I’m gay.” In “Love Poem,” Zuzga recalls a melancholic youth in the dark shadow of an emerging queer identity (“I was angry at myself for being a teenaged mermaid”) and tinges of this same sadness appear at other moments in the collection. (Mar.)\n . Animals appear everywhere, including bats, sharks, “hot deer,” and an extinct Steller’s Se