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A much anticipated third collection with poems mourning a mother figure, as well as recently deceased cultural icons. Praise for Kathleen Ossip : Ossip conjures delightful and unexpected musesshrewd and ambitious. New York Times Book Review " The Do-Over , Ossips third collection, is a lyrical, open-ended, meta-leaning meditation on the subject of death.[A]n exquisite cocktail of displacement, minutiae, and metapoetic introspection." Boston Review The biggest surprise in poetry for 2011 is this second book by Kathleen Ossip. Its got everything one could wish for in a new collection of poems. . . . Its just beautiful. And terrifying. Publishers Weekly , Best Books of 2011 The poet has an uncanny ability to convey what it actually feels like to be alive todayOssip is one of our foremost ethnographers of contemporary unreality. The Believer How do you stay in heaven? Ossip asks, Is it a kind of sophisticated rewind? Her third collection of poems is haunted by the idea of rewind, and especially by the teasing possibility that we, toolike the moon, like a plantmay be granted cycles of life, death, and rebirth. The book's overarching narrative is the death of the poets stepmother-in-law,

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Author

Kathleen Ossip

Publisher

Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781336285507

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Erotica, Literary Fiction, Poetry

Rating

3.79 / 5 (43 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14