A Common Name for Everything

A Common Name for Everything - Paperback

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A Common Name for Everything - Paperback

A Common Name for Everything - Paperback

by Sarah Wolfson
$14.95
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Book Overview

The poems in A Common Name for Everything build idiosyncratic worlds around the themes of nature, home, parenting, and naming--worlds that are at once poignant and absurd: a professional namer of lakes explains his standards; the rural gods are given names; a study of sheep results in loneliness. Steeped in sound play and borrowing academic language to create a specimen lens, these poems bask in the local as they seek to name even the commonest earthly things.
ISBN9781950584130
Author Sarah Wolfson
PublisherGreen Writers Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages80
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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A Common Name for Everything

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About Sarah Wolfson

Sarah Wolfson's poems have appeared in Canadian and American journals including The Fiddlehead, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, PRISM international, and TriQuarterly--and they have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Originally from Vermont, she now lives in Montreal, where she teaches at McGill University.

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