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Poems

Carrie Fountain

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English
Penguin USA
19 November 2014
Series: Penguin Poets
A second collection by a prize winning poet that offers a moving and authentic exploration of spirituality and the domestic.

A moving, authentic exploration of spirituality and the domestic from a prize-winning poet

The wry, supple poems in Carrie Fountain's second collection take the form of prayers and meditations chronicling the existential shifts brought on by parenthood, spiritual searching, and the profound, often beguiling experience of being a self, inside a body, with a soul. Fountain's voice is at once deep and loose, enacting the dawning of spiritual insight, but without leaving the daily world, matching the feeling of the ""pure holiness in motherhood"" with the ""thuds the giant dumpsters make behind the strip mall when they're tossed back to the pavement by the trash truck."" In these wise, accessible, deeply emotional poems, she captures a contemporary longing for spiritual meaning that's wary of prepackaged wisdom-a longing answered most fully by attending to the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
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Imprint:   Penguin USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   113g
ISBN:   9780143126638
ISBN 10:   0143126636
Series:   Penguin Poets
Pages:   96
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Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Carrie Fountain was born and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico. Her debut collection, Burn Lake, was published by Penguin in 2010. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Agni, and Tin House. She lives with her family in Austin, Texas.

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