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Applause: Poems

Carol Muske-Dukes

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National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applause

Applause provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In "Dream," she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. "The Eulogy" paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of AIDS is laid to rest. In the title poem, a twelve-part journey through the ritual of applause, Muske-Dukes examines the power of a gesture--clapping--to transform oneself from individual to communal. "What a strange phenomenon," she says, "to be single and plural at once, to feel joy and dread simultaneously, to wish to acknowledge publicly one's anonymity."

Pages: 58

Format: ebook

Publisher: Open Road Media

Release: June 10, 2014

ISBN: 1480484881

ISBN 13: 9781480484887

Applause: Poems

Carol Muske-Dukes

0/5 ( ratings)

National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applause

Applause provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In "Dream," she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. "The Eulogy" paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of AIDS is laid to rest. In the title poem, a twelve-part journey through the ritual of applause, Muske-Dukes examines the power of a gesture--clapping--to transform oneself from individual to communal. "What a strange phenomenon," she says, "to be single and plural at once, to feel joy and dread simultaneously, to wish to acknowledge publicly one's anonymity."

Pages: 58

Format: ebook

Publisher: Open Road Media

Release: June 10, 2014

ISBN: 1480484881

ISBN 13: 9781480484887

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