The Nonnets
Aaron Giovannone
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DRM:
Open - No Protection
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Publication Year:
2018
2018
ISBN-13:
9781771664097
Description:
Compulsively confessional and cracking-wise, <i>The Nonnets</i> is an utterly unique alchemy of poetry and comedy.<br><br>Aaron Giovanonne's latest collection is a book-length sequence of 'nonnets'—nine-line poems that Giovannone handles with ruthless dexterity. Capturing transformations from first dates to goodbye texts, from mama’s boy to unrepentant shoplifter, from post-industrial downtown to eleventh-century Italian monastery, these poems present a kaleidoscopic world that careens wildly between despair and ecstasy.<br><br>