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by: Stephen Burt
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781555974374
ISBN: 1555974376
Label: Graywolf Press
Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: January 24, 2006
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Sales Rank: 1211624
Studio: Graywolf Press
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The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt
Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again,
Though it was all they had taught you.
—from “Like a Wreck”
Consult any childhood development guide and you’ll find the term “parallel play”: when children under two are placed together, they’ll play separately but won’t interact. They are more fascinated with their immediate surroundings than with each other.
Stephen Burt’s second collection of poems, Parallel Play, describes lovers, friends, travelers, and revelers attempting lives dependent on each other but still pulled inevitably into preoccupations of their own self-awareness. When there are many obstacles—overeducation, narcissism, extended adolescence, nomadic existence—how can Americans crawl out of the nursery and coexist if they increasingly have to learn to do so as adults?
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Rating: - A haunting scrutiny of isolation, whether by need, choice, or accident
The term "parallel play" in childhood development refers to when two children are placed together yet play separately, without interacting. Parallel Play is an anthology of poetry reflecting on the tendency adults, lovers, friends, travelers, and others withdrawn into their personal existences, sometimes influencing one another but not necessarily acknowledging one another. The variant styles of free verse meander across the intricacies of human consciousness, even - or especially - when wholly self ... Read More
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