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National Book Award winner Paul Monette's acclaimed first book of poetry. Originally published in 1975, The Carpenter at the Asylum was Monette's first literary success. In this collection of poems, he writes with playfulness and candor of everything from fairy tales to the change of seasons. "All things glitter like fresh milk," he writes in one poem. And indeed, these works pull a sparklingly strange beauty from everyday objects and experiences. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
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"Monette writes about frail joys (bruised grass that pops back after the girl gets up) and expansive, leisured pains (the carpenter who arranges flowers just so, while the lunatics kick in the walls downstairs). He is original, combining troubador preciousness with a modern angle of vision. The result is an accomplished... aestheticism - poems plucked from the hothouse."
Kirkus Reviews
"The 25 poems in this volume do not crack easily. Some are... elusive, cryptic dream images; but all, as Richard Howard observes, require close attention... Monette records his vision of a striking world with expert command of words and images."
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