Architect by Thumel, Alison

Architect

"When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life," writes Alison Thumel...
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Author: Alison Thumel
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Architect by Thumel, Alison

Architect

$241.93

Architect

$241.93
Author: Alison Thumel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life," writes Alison Thumel in Architect, which interweaves poems, lyric essays, and visual art to great emotional effect. In this debut collection, the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright become a blueprint for elegy, as Thumel overlays the language of architecture with the language of grief to raze and reconstruct memories, metaphors, and myths. With obsessive and exacting focus, the poet leads us through room after room in a search to answer whether it is possible to rebuild in the wake of loss. Meanwhile, the midwestern landscape beyond these rooms--the same landscape that infuses the low, horizontal forms of Wright's Prairie Style buildings--shapes the figures in Architect as well as their fates: "For years after my brother's death, I collected news articles on people who died young and tragically in landlocked states. Prairie Style deaths--boys sucked down into grain silos or swept up by tornadoes or fallen through a frozen pond. The boys I didn't know, but the landscape I did. The dread of it. How many miles you can look ahead. For how long you see what is coming."


Author: Alison Thumel
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 04/29/2024
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781682262481

About the Author
Alison Thumel's poems have appeared in Poetry, the Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry at Stanford University, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Martha Meier Renk Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she completed her MFA.

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