Delightfully universal, Raft by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to lifes shared experiences and emotionsillness, aging, beauty, and love.
Desde la pieldesde el interiordesde la diferenciadesde el arrebatodesde un lugar que no ocupa lugardesde lo diminutodesde la sencillezdesde el cantodesde su propia vidadesbaratada.
Twenty-five poems covering subjects like the difference between Cow Parsley and Hogweed, the ghosts of Pevensey Castle, school exams, the history of flies, Rawls's Veil of Ignorance, train journeys to distant universes, Jack O'Kent, eviction, Humphrey Bogart, and shopping.
"e;religion's been cruel to people like usthe darkwood sluts the good time girlsbut god as my witnesssome of us we're just trying to wrangle our powerback from the species that took it"e;Jemima Foxtrot's Treasure is a shining work of alchemy and liberation which explores power dynamics, sex work, desire, and female friendship with a fresh and playful perspective.
