Otherwise Unseeable (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
Description:
Winner of the 2014 Four Lakes Poetry Prize
What if ruin is a good thing? What if each day is built on the ruin of the one before? What if all our attempts to avoid ruin only make us bitter or closed off from what’s around us? What if only by exploring our ruins do we become human?
The poems in Otherwise Unseeable examine such questions. It is a poetry full of music and surprise, in voices that are personal, invented, and historical, sometimes belonging to the poet and sometimes to others. Betsy Sholl probes what there is still to learn from the devastations of the twentieth century, and she explores the roots of human envy, greed, and generosity in lively, unexpected ways, enacting the kinds of arguments we have with ourselves: between control and relinquishment, grief and ecstasy, regret and acceptance, faith and skepticism. The end result is a book of verbal wrestling, a girl-Jacob mixing it up with one kind of angel or another, limping for sure, but still blessed.
Winner, Maine Literary Award, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance
What if ruin is a good thing? What if each day is built on the ruin of the one before? What if all our attempts to avoid ruin only make us bitter or closed off from what’s around us? What if only by exploring our ruins do we become human?
The poems in Otherwise Unseeable examine such questions. It is a poetry full of music and surprise, in voices that are personal, invented, and historical, sometimes belonging to the poet and sometimes to others. Betsy Sholl probes what there is still to learn from the devastations of the twentieth century, and she explores the roots of human envy, greed, and generosity in lively, unexpected ways, enacting the kinds of arguments we have with ourselves: between control and relinquishment, grief and ecstasy, regret and acceptance, faith and skepticism. The end result is a book of verbal wrestling, a girl-Jacob mixing it up with one kind of angel or another, limping for sure, but still blessed.
Winner, Maine Literary Award, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780299299347
Frequently Asked Questions about Otherwise Unseeable (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
You can buy the Otherwise Unseeable (Wisconsin Poetry Series) book at one of 20+ online bookstores with BookScouter, the website that helps find the best deal across the web. Currently, the best offer comes from and is $ for the .
The price for the book starts from $5.35 on Amazon and is available from 9 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the Otherwise Unseeable (Wisconsin Poetry Series) book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Otherwise Unseeable (Wisconsin Poetry Series) book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Otherwise Unseeable (Wisconsin Poetry Series) book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 5,829,554 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
Not enough insights yet.