Odessa

by Patricia Kirkpatrick

Book Overview

WINNER OF THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD

A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Patricia Kirkpatrick's Odessa--selected by Peter Campion as the winner of the 2012 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry--fighting for her life.

The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the "emotional core of the self," central to the process of memory. And so a dreamlike reality emerges from these poems, emotionally charged but void...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571314563
• ISBN13: 9781571314567
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.3"