Name: From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum By Kathleen Balma
SKU: 9781913606886
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From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum Summary

From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum by Kathleen Balma

From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum is a stunning series of imaginative leaps and encounters, as playful as it is momentous. Not only poetry lovers, but enthusiasts of art history, fantasy fiction, sci-fi, westerns, travel narratives, nature documentaries, and historical fiction will delight in its genre-bending adventures and inventions. How did Abraham Lincoln build the log cabin he was born in? What happens at an invisible gun show? Are aliens really controlling a Chicago musician's ears? Kathleen Balma crafts answers to these and other metaphysical questions with a language all her own. Known for her deadpan humor and lack of pretense, Balma has given us a first book that is both light to carry and hard to put down.

From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum Reviews

Kathleen Balma's debut poetry collection is a marvelous concoction steeped in myth, nostalgia, humor, and the chimerical. Sirens are juxtaposed with Dreamsicles, John Wayne rides in on a John Deere tractor, and Brigadoon and Salvador Dali are saluted in a poem about stopping time. Punctuated with startling similes like Abe Lincoln as a Christmas specter, Balma's book is a complex amalgam of positive and negative imagery, shining with both wit and wonder. - Simone Muench; In Kathleen Balma's first full-length collection, intelligent soybeans plot to take over the Midwest, ghosts seek out psychoanalysis, embryonic Abraham Lincolns design their cabin home, and baby snub-nosed monkeys live out a lyrical and heartbreaking soap opera. Witty, fresh, whimsical and musical, From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum, is one of those very rare feats, poems of both thought and song, a beguilement of both intellect and ear. I found it a joyride from beginning to end, a thoroughly smart and rewarding debut; Balma is a poet I hope to follow for years to come - Hailey Leithauser

About Kathleen Balma

Kathleen Balma's poems have appeared in Best New Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology, and many other publications. She works as a programming and services librarian at New Orleans Public Library, where she is the founder and leader of Virtual Creative Writing Workshop-a free, intergenerational writing group for residents of Orleans Parish. From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum is her debut collection.

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GOR012865117

ISBN 13

9781913606886

ISBN 10

1913606880

Title

From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum by Kathleen Balma

Author

Kathleen Balma

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Eyewear Publishing

Year published

20220214

Number of pages

70

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum Kathleen Balma

From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum by Kathleen Balma

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From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum Summary

From Your Hostess At The T&A Museum by Kathleen Balma

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About Kathleen Balma

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