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Fruit: Volume 1 (Wisconsin Poetry Series) - Softcover

Bruce Snider (author)

 
9780299326746: Fruit: Volume 1 (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299326748 ISBN 13: 9780299326746
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020

Synopsis

Bruce Snider's third poetry collection grapples with what it means to be childless in a world obsessed with procreation. Poems move between the scientific and the biblical, effortlessly sliding from the clinical landscape of a sperm bank to Mount Moriah as Abraham prepares Isaac for sacrifice. Exploring issues of sexuality, lineage, and mortality, Snider delves into subjects as varied as the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky; same-sex couple adoption; and Gregor Mendel's death in 1884. Each poem builds into a broader examination of power and fragility, domesticity and rebellion, violence and devotion: heartrending vignettes of the aches and joys of growing up and testing the limits of nature and nurture. In language both probing and sensitive, Fruit delivers its own conflicted and celebratory answers to pressing questions of life, death, love, and biology.

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About the Author

Bruce Snider is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Paradise, Indiana, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, and The Year We Studied Women, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry.

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What in me, I wonder, is me
as the world goes on copying itself&;
black seeds sprouting green,
egg sacks on the gray spider.
&;excerpt from &;One Day, He Said, I&;d Carry on the Family Name&;

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0299326748
ISBN 13 
9780299326746
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
96