ANNA, WASHING by Ted Genoways ( 9780820332062 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

ANNA, WASHING

By:

Ted Genoways

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0820332062

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9780820332062

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS

Pub. date:

15 September, 2008

Series:

VQR Poetry Series

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Set against the bleak backdrop of the Yukon and the historical moment of the 1897 Klondike gold rush, this chronologically arranged series of sonnets is grounded in the lived experience of Finnish immigrants Anna and Abe Malm.

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This book includes poems at the intersection of private stories and public history.Set against the bleak backdrop of the Yukon and the historical moment of the 1897 Klondike gold rush, this chronologically arranged series of sonnets is grounded in the lived experience of Finnish immigrants Anna and Abe Malm. Anna hauls her Anthony Wayne Washer into the wilderness and sets up a laundry business while Abe seeks his fortune. Anna and Abe share a unique history, revealed in the book's epigraph: Anna, nineteen years her husband's senior, had first raised him and then married him.Genoways' graceful formalism makes percussive music of a story marked by isolation and brutal difficulty. He manages a deft and plain-speaking rhyme that is in keeping with the tough lives his poems explore. The poems, which shift in frame from Anna's letters or Abe's diary to third-person verse that captures the characters' inner thoughts, bring the vitality of luminous detail and psychological depth to the arc of history.

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