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Fuchsia in Cambodia: Poems
Suffused with tenderness and humor, the poems in this new collection take readers on a journey through emotions, across national boundaries, and even along the geographic timeline. The quick mind of author Jacobstein creates fluid verse that can take on the singular geography of his native Michigan or the story of an immigrant cab driver with ease. His elegant rhyme and clever rhythm are suited equally to an ode to the stegosaurus and to his many poems for his adopted daughter. He moves readers from Washington, D.C., to Delhi, from adolescence to fatherhood, and between heaven and earth. With its immersive voice and sensitive examinations, this set of verses retains its sense of wonder at all the beautiful hellos and good-byes that humans come to know well in their too-short lifetimes.
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Fuchsia in Cambodia: Poems
Suffused with tenderness and humor, the poems in this new collection take readers on a journey through emotions, across national boundaries, and even along the geographic timeline. The quick mind of author Jacobstein creates fluid verse that can take on the singular geography of his native Michigan or the story of an immigrant cab driver with ease. His elegant rhyme and clever rhythm are suited equally to an ode to the stegosaurus and to his many poems for his adopted daughter. He moves readers from Washington, D.C., to Delhi, from adolescence to fatherhood, and between heaven and earth. With its immersive voice and sensitive examinations, this set of verses retains its sense of wonder at all the beautiful hellos and good-byes that humans come to know well in their too-short lifetimes.
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Fuchsia in Cambodia: Poems

Fuchsia in Cambodia: Poems

by Roy Jacobstein
Fuchsia in Cambodia: Poems

Fuchsia in Cambodia: Poems

by Roy Jacobstein

Overview

Suffused with tenderness and humor, the poems in this new collection take readers on a journey through emotions, across national boundaries, and even along the geographic timeline. The quick mind of author Jacobstein creates fluid verse that can take on the singular geography of his native Michigan or the story of an immigrant cab driver with ease. His elegant rhyme and clever rhythm are suited equally to an ode to the stegosaurus and to his many poems for his adopted daughter. He moves readers from Washington, D.C., to Delhi, from adolescence to fatherhood, and between heaven and earth. With its immersive voice and sensitive examinations, this set of verses retains its sense of wonder at all the beautiful hellos and good-byes that humans come to know well in their too-short lifetimes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810152014
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 04/01/2008
Edition description: 1
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Roy Jacobstein is a public health physician and the acclaimed author of the poetry collections A Form of Optimism, Ripe, and Tourniquet. In 2002, he received the Felix Pollak Prize and in 2006 won the Morse Poetry Award. His poems have appeared in publications including Arts and Letters,The Iowa Review,TriQuarterly, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. He lives with his wife and daughter in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

One
The Persistence of Memory
Ode to Stegosaurus
Puberty
Cold Chop
Nick of Time
Spinning Bottle
Round Trip

Two
Adams-Morgan Aubade
Working Out
The Ride
Woman Needs Man
How to Thrive in the Office Cube
Sustenance

Three
Referral
The Golden Door
Ceremony
First Egg
Bad Buddhist
Conundrum
Passing Customs
Picnic Near Camp Lejeune
Papaya

Four
Heaven
The Unknown Albeit, or While Reading a Friend's Prizewinning Book on Love's Vicissitudes He Writes about Words
Phlox
Still
The Tatse of Guava
Dilemma
Air and All
If They Don't Have Ritalin in Heaven

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