Contradictions in the Design - by Matthew Olzmann (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Fighting illogic with illogic, poems employ humor as a way to make effecting points about American society and cultural norms.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"Contradictions in the Design is a firehouse of a book-heaven-bent and relieved toward elemental mysteries that it resists and celebrates. Telegraphing the factories of Detroit, our familiar and strange American homes, the vast Blue Ridge, Olzmann guides us toward a hard-earned gratefulness that can exist when in the presence of impossible questions. We are not given easy answers but lucid and heartbreaking portraits of a brave conscientiousness. Olzmann is the one to watch." -Sarah Gambito</p><p>"Matthew Olzmann's poetry is that rare thing that embraces complication while, at every turn, filling us with wonder. Contradictions in the Design incorporates 'patterns among celestial bodies, the mysteries of Christ, X + Y, crossword puzzles, free will, ' but also the playfulness and oddities of life that allow us to laugh hardest at ourselves. Desire, Supervillains, Moby, and 'the idea of Moby': prepare yourself to be dazzled." -C. Dale Young</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Matthew Olzmann's first book of poems, <i>Mezzanines</i>, received the 2011 Kundiman Prize and was published by Alice James Books. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>New England Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, The Southern Review, Forklift, Ohio</i> and elsewhere. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing in the undergraduate writing program at Warren Wilson College and co-editor of <i>The Collagist</i>.
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