Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Lucky Fish

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Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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Lucky Fish

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From Publishers Weekly: Nezhukumatathil's fourth book is fascinated with the small mechanisms of being, whether natural, personal, or imagined. Everything from eating eels in the Ozark mountains to the history of red dye finds a rich life in her poems. At times her lush settings and small stories are reminiscent of fairy tales ("The frog who wanted to see the sea was mostly disappointed"), while at others Nezhukumatathil speaks with resonance and fierceness: "The center of my hands boiled/ with blossoms when we made a family. I would never flee that garden. I swear to/ you here and now: If I ever go missing, know that I am trying to come home." Even as the poems jump from the Philippines to India to New York, they still take their time, stopping to notice that "there is no mystery on water/ greater than the absence of rust," and to draw small but wonderful parallels: "I loved you dark & late. The crocus have found ways to push up & say this/ too."
Book Details
Publisher:
Tupelo Press
ISBN:
9781932195583
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
78
Authors:
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Published Date:
2011-01-15
Language:
English
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About Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and a Malayali Indian father, Aimee Nezhukumatathil received her BA and MFA from Ohio State University and is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of five poetry collections, including Miracle Fruit (Tupelo Press, 2003), winner of the Tupelo Press Prize and the Global Filipino Literary Award; Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award; and Night Owl (Ecco, 2026). Her illustrated essay collection World of Wonders (Milkweed Editions, 2020) was a New York Times bestseller. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.

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