Second Story: Poems

Denise Duhamel

Second Story: Poems
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Country
United States
Published
5 August 2021
Pages
110
ISBN
9780822966531

Second Story: Poems

Denise Duhamel

When her Florida apartment is damaged by the ferocity of Hurricane Irma, Duhamel turns to Dante and terza rima, reconstructing the form into the long poem Terza Irma. Throughout the book she investigates our near-catastrophic ecological and political moment, hyperaware of her own complicity, resistance, and agency. She writes odes to her favorite uncle - who was green before it was a hashtag - and Mother Nature via a retro margarine commercial. She writes letters to her failing memory as well as to America’s amnesia. With fear of the water below and a burglar who enters through her second story window, she bravely faces the story under the story, the second story we often neglect to tell.

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