The Occupant: Poetry

The Occupant: Poetry - Paperback

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The Occupant: Poetry - Paperback

The Occupant: Poetry - Paperback

by Jennifer Maier
$21.60
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Book Overview

The Occupant is a collection of persona and prose poems that explores the "inner lives" of common household objects, along with that of "The Occupant" of the house, their human keeper. Taken together, their shifting perspectives engage questions of time, mortality, and the nature of consciousness itself, reminding readers of the beauty and strangeness that lurk under the surface of ordinary thought--the "other world" that, as Paul Éluard noted, "resides in this one."
ISBN9780822967392
Author Jennifer Maier
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages80
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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The Occupant: Poetry

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About Jennifer Maier

Jennifer Maier is the author of Now, Now and Dark Alphabet, which was named one of Ten Remarkable Books of 2006 by the Academy of American Poets and was shortlisted for the 2008 Poets' Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Plume, Southern Humanities Review, Scientific American, The Gettysburg Review, American Poet, and elsewhere. She works as a professor of modern literature and poetics, writer in residence, and senior faculty in poetry in the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University.

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