{"product_id":"beloved-idea-paperback","title":"Beloved Idea - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnn Killough\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ann Killough's voice is self-aware, skeptical, and inconsolable. With bracketed lower-case titles and long strophic lines, with fragmented echoes of the white whale and the open road, and with proliferating metaphors that question the worth and nature of metaphor itself, Killough probes the soul of twenty-first-century America and gives our own quiet desperation a name and vivid shape.\"--Fred Marchant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBeloved Idea\u003c\/em\u003e investigates our world with passionately reasoned nearly desperate attention. Acknowledging the present we find ourselves questioning, Ann Killough braves multiple acts of metaphorical consequence. Reading this book awakens one's desire to understand why we're here and what we're capable of thinking. It invites one's mind to awaken. It is therefore a very, very good book.\"--Dara Wier\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This brave and remarkable debut functions as one long poem and achieves extension through Stein-like repetition, and meaning through accretion and excess. In seeking a metaphorical ideal, Killough's struggle to write is a struggle to understand her feelings for her nation--a process akin to a mother learning that her child is a murderer, a truth from which there can be no refuge or respite. \"Killough is a poet who is not afraid to be 'too big.' Her world cannot be contained within narrow margins; her sentences sprawl across the lines and pages like our own messy beloved geographies, the country we call home.\"-- \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eBeloved Idea\u003c\/em\u003e] is an interesting trip through the minefield of metaphor. Each one you step on has the possibility of exploding.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Great American Pin-Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Disentangling the complicated intersections of faith and American identity drive the progression of the twenty-three poems that make up \u003cem\u003eBeloved Idea\u003c\/em\u003e...The poems skirt on the edge of the breakdown of language as the metaphor takes on a variety of guises: sheep's clothing, Melville's white whale, an astronaut, the Mississippi River...\u003cem\u003eBeloved Idea\u003c\/em\u003e uses the idea of the metaphor to create pluralities of meaning within one word or symbol.\"--\u003cem\u003eForeWord Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Astonishingly original and disturbingly urgent, \u003cem\u003eBeloved Idea\u003c\/em\u003e foregrounds metaphor as a means of exploring the nation in which we live. Using the sentence as a flexible prosodic unit, Ann Killough creates a sequence that offers linguistic delights and sly humor even as it forces us to confront the most difficult questions about our history, literature, politics, and culture.\"--Martha Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnn Killough\u003c\/b\u003e's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFIELD\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSentence\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her chapbook \u003ci\u003eSinners in the Hands: Selections from the Catalog\u003c\/i\u003e received the 2003 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Killough lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, and coordinates the Brookline Poetry Series and the Mouthful Reading Series in Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8.46 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e IndieFab awards (2007)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50447049162989,"sku":"9781882295654","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/beloved-idea-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}