{"product_id":"american-mythology-paperback","title":"American Mythology - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaphael Kosek\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a pleasure to welcome this assured new poetry collection from Raphael Kosek. Large as its title is--\u003cem\u003eAMERICAN MYTHOLOGY\u003c\/em\u003e--the poems rise to its challenge. Whether orchestrating her response to landscapes actual or painted (her startling poems on the work of Georgia O'Keeffe offer a splendid set of meditations on what's going on in any O'Keeffe painting), or navigating with skill, feeling, and clear-eyed courage the choppy waters of personal relationships, the reader can always trust the authenticity both of thought, observation and feeling. What I admire throughout, is the sense of urgency under an often deceptively quiet surface, at once absorbed and appalled by the ordinary day. \"Isn't everything we do serious?\" she asks--and these poems acknowledge the truth of this, while remaining light of touch, deft of manner, clean of language, with a ripple of anxious muscle under their skin, so that \"truth comes unexpected,\" for it is \"truth\" she's after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Eamon Grennan, author of THERE NOW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaphael Kosek's \u003cem\u003eAMERICAN MYTHOLOGY\u003c\/em\u003e is a fine debut collection. The mythology she explores is as much personal as it is national. In the title poem, she says, \"I've never been out west \/ but the frontier is in my bones.\" Kosek assesses her world with a painterly eye. She writes of the \"murderous beauty of bright things\" and tells us \"the Black Hills are not really black \/ but green and gray like Cezanne's mountains.\" Elsewhere, she says, \"I want to write the poem . . . that won't stop bleeding.\" And she has. Repeatedly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Charles Rafferty, author of \u003cem\u003eTHE SMOKE OF HORSES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaphael Helena Kosek investigates sacred spaces in \u003cem\u003eAMERICAN MYTHOLOGY\u003c\/em\u003e, dismantling domestic landscapes, paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, and archetypes of the western frontier, where buffalo and antelope roam. As with grace, \"The truth comes unexpected,\" she reminds us--in the course of finding a missing button, \"while washing parsley at the sink,\" observing the \"stark calligraphy\" of crows in flight or hanging a \"faded military flag.\" Crisscrossing multiple terrains of heart and imagination, and as declared in \"Ars Poetica,\" hers are poems \"that will break your window.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Pauline Uchmanowicz, author of \u003cem\u003eSTARFISH\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52728129028403,"sku":"9780997955996","price":24.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/cjhndFpUeUFhUHZDQ3p0bldEOXpFdz09.webp?v=1763776916","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/american-mythology-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}