Description: Brand New pristine copy. Janet Holmes's second book of poems explores and interrogates the quotidian life of the late twentieth century for what exists behind its often seductive appearance. In these poems we see beneath acceptable, sleek surfaces into the turbulence they often conceal, as the splendid green tuxedo of the title may disguise a heart that harbors racism, fear, and violence. Holmes exhorts us to look beyond the face value of what presents itself, to resist literal interpretations, and to plumb the many depths afforded by each encounter with the world outside ourselves. In the second half of The Green Tuxedo, Holmes draws on recently discovered diaries kept by her journalist father nearly fifty years before her birth. Sifting through evidence and memory, she entwines actual diary entries (such as a seventy-seven-name list of "Wild Women I Have Known") with speculation and invention to generate a portrait that discovers him- re-invents him-as a young man. This sequence, searching and elegiac, affords closure to a book whose questionings suggest less a need for absolute answers than a declaration of the need to explore. Holmes leads us through a world of appearances, celebrating the necessary examination of what is concealed.
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Book Title: Green Tuxedo
Ex Libris: No
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Item Length: 6 in
Original Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1998
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 9 in
Author: Janet Holmes
Genre: Poetry
Topic: Poetry
Item Weight: 18 oz
Number of Pages: 70 Pages
