- Paperback: 68 pages
- Publisher: Oberlin College Press (January 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0932440819
- ISBN-13: 978-0932440815
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.3 x 0.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 141 g
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Things happen in Vanitas Motel: a funeral, a fistfight, an outburst at a poetry reading. Its poems are surreal parables, at once funny and dark, sensual and deeply serious. Their revealed subjects are loss, art, illness, and desire. Vanitas Motel is the first collection by Jon Loomis, and the winner of the 1997 FIELD Poetry Prize.
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Precise beauty, amazing language, May 22 2001
By "akjdfls" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Vanitas Motel: Jon Loomis (Paperback)
The poems in Jon Loomis's Vanitas Motel are stark appraisals of loss, joy, mortality, and passion etched in simple, beautiful language. Touching, humorous, breathtaking.
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An Insightful, Moving Collection, April 22 1999
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This review is from: Vanitas Motel: Jon Loomis (Paperback)
According to David Young, editor of the Field Poetry Series (Oberlin College Press), the poems in Vanitas Motel are "clean and clear-eyed, remarkably distilled, often ferociously understated or matter-of-fact about pain or loss. They dart quickly, shading through tenderness and hilarity, aching with wit and exhilerating insights." The Virginia Quarterly Review said: "Few pleasures are more exhilerating than discovering a poet whose work passes Emily Dickinson's test for authentic writing: it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. This is the cas with Jon Loomis's 'Vanitas Motel.'" They're both right--the poems in "Vanitas Motel" are accessible and intelligent, serious and seriously funny all in one breath. With this shimmering debut, Loomis has established himself as one of America's finest younger poets.
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