Kearney, Douglas: Patter

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Red Hen Press, paperback Publication Date: March 01, 2014 Publisher Marketing: For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death a ttend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents' faces, where does that violence, anxiety, and shame go? The poems in Patter re-imagine miscarriages as minstrel shows, magic tricks, and comic strips; set Darth Vader against Oedipus's dad in competition for "Father of the Year;" and interrogate the poet's family's stint on reality TV. In this, his third collection, award-winning poet Douglas Kearney doggedly worries the line between love and hate, showing how it bleeds itself into "fatherhood." Show more