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"Descartes asked, How can I know that I am not now dreaming? The Certainty Dream poses similar questions through poetry without the trappings of traditional philosophy. Kate Hall{u2019}s bracingly immediate, insistently idiosyncratic debut collection lays bare the tricks and tools of her trade: a mynah bird perches in poems but 'stands for nightingale'; the poet{u2019}s antelope turns transparent; she dresses up her orange trees with bark and leaves. As the dream world and the waking world blur, the body and the dimensions it inhabits become a series of overlapping circles, all acting as…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2009Coach House Books · 79 pages · 9781552452233
Poetry (poetic works by one author)DreamsPoetryTeen nonfiction