Earnest, Earnest?: Poems

by Eleanor Boudreau

In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover's name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whether both can be present at the same time. While Earnest can be read literally as Eleanor's lover, he is best understood as another side of the poet's self. The ambiguity at play in Earnest, Earnest? is embodied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822966301
• ISBN13: 9780822966302
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 7.9"