Instant Winner: Instant Winner: Poems

Instant Winner: Instant Winner: Poems - Paperback

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Instant Winner: Instant Winner: Poems - Paperback

Instant Winner: Instant Winner: Poems - Paperback

by Carrie Fountain
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780143126638
Author Carrie Fountain
PublisherPenguin Adult Hc/Tr
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages96
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Carrie Fountain

Carrie Fountain's poems have appeared in Tin House, Poetry, and The New Yorker, among others. Her debut collection, Burn Lake, was a National Poetry Series winner and was published in 2010 by Penguin. Her second collection, Instant Winner, was published by Penguin in 2014. I'm Not Missing is her debut novel. Born and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico, Carrie received her MFA as a fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently writer-in-residence at St. Edward's University, she lives in Austin with her husband and their two children.

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