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Earnest, Earnest?: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Eleanor Boudreau is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Earnest, Earnest?: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) about?

Winner, Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist, 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Silver Medal, 2020 Florida Book Award In Earnest, Earnest? , the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lovers name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whether both can be present at the same time. While Earnest can be read literally as Eleanors lover, he is best understood as another side of the poets self. The ambiguity at play in Earnest, Earnest? is embodied in the form of the Earnest Postcards that structure the bookthese postcards are experimental in their use of images and formal in their dialogue with the sonnet. Thus, Earnest, Earnest? is a question of tone, address, and form.

Author

Eleanor Boudreau

Publisher

Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822987895

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities