num_pages: 216
description: Irreverent and edgy renderings of the American scene.Poet and visual artist Faye Kicknosway presents both new works and twenty-five years of celebrated verse and illustration in her latest volume, Mixed New and Selected Poems. The poems mine common speech, folklore, film, the grotesque and the ordinary with unapologetic candor and ferocious intimacy. They are a testament to the power of contemporary monologue, filled with surprising inversions and unique takes on the risk of opening the front door. Cutting musically to the quick of a situation, each is filled with surprise, horror and, as they add up, moral consequence.
language: English
title: Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Wesleyan University Press