Funkhouser, Erica

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Pursuit: Poems
Erica Funkhouser
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The Actual World

ASIN: 0618381872

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Erica Funkhouser's poetry finds in the natural world a leaping-off point for all types of human inquiry: physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Her fourth collection, Pursuit, gives us poems devoted to the details of living, poems that illustrate how a domestic moment may turn suddenly erotic or how a wave of grief may open inexplicably into triumph. Whether driven by elemental need or sublime desire, the inhabitants of these thought-provoking poems engage in seeking of every kind.

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Natural Affinities
Erica Funkhouser
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Sure Shot and Other Poems
Erica Funkhouser
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The first part of Erica Funkhouser's SURE SHOT comprises 26 lyric poems of surpassing tenderness. Refusing to observe her world complacently, she brings a tough precision and richness of emotion to family life and the relations of friends and lovers. The inventiveness and humor of these poems are rare in contemporary poetry. The second part of SURE SHOT consists of poetic monologues that reconsider America through the eyes of three nineteenth-century American women--Sacajawea, Louisa May Alcott, and Annie Oakley. These dramatic poems explore both the inner worlds of these three extraordinary women and their responses to the central events of the century in which they lived.

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A Spellbounding World

The Actual World
Erica Funkhouser
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Pursuit: Poems

ASIN: 0395877075

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Joyce Carol Oates counts herself among Erica Funkhouser's admirers, pointing to Funkhouser's "unusual clarity of vision and language." The real strength of The Actual World is Funkhouser's dramatic poems. In it she has dusted off and jump-started the legends of Louisa May Alcott and Annie Oakley, among others. Funkhouser demonstrates her ability to imaginatively project herself into a situation and carry the reader with her. The voice she has found in "The Dog" is especially appealing: "I love how he rows his fingers / the wrong way through the fur on my back, / pulling and growling and lifting his heels / as if he were the one being pleased."

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The gifted author of Sure Shot (about which The Harvard Review wrote, "Erica Funkhouser has written an important book and is on her way to becoming an important poet") has now composed her third volume, including lyrics that conjure up a sisterly view of childhood, a narrative poem that brings to life a city under siege in civil war, and a group of poignant shorter poems dramatizing love, pain, and history. Much anthologized, Erica Funkhouser's dramatic poems are models of their kind: "Funkhouser breathes new life into the legends of Sacagawea, Louisa May Alcott, and Annie Oakley . . . but her most moving poems are those in her own voice" (Library Journal). To get the shape right one must be capricious as a twig - crave sunlight and audience and leave things open to the rain - respecting, at the same time, the solemnity of the whole tree. Certain irrevocable decisions must be lived with. - From "Pruning"

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Funkhouser delivers a fasinating book of fantasy and reality. A trip that you won't want to find an exit out of. Her words will set you reading the book over and over.

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Earthly
Erica Funkhouser
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Erica Funkhouser’s spirited fifth collection considers what it means to be earthly. She gives us a world in which granite foundation stones resemble “ceremonial animals, their throats unslit,” and where the otherness of the real world collides with the reality of one’s imagination. The central poem in the collection, “Pome,” cuts into the mythos of Johnny Appleseed, the biology of apple farming, and the poet’s own lavishly rendered memories of growing up on a farm. The final section of the book consists of a group of sonnets written as an homage to the Holy Sonnets of John Donne -- witty, graceful poems that limn the coming into consciousness of a young poet. A departure from both Funkhouser’s previous historical narratives and her compressed lyrics, the wide and sweeping poems in Earthly are sure to deliver this poet her greatest recognition yet.

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Sure Shot and Other Poems
Erica Funkhouser
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J0XM2Y

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Sure Shot
Erica Funkhouser
Manufacturer: Houghton, 1992
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J0U1LE

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Sou'wester (Fall 2005)
Erica Funkhouser
Manufacturer: Board of Trustees of So. Illinois Univ.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IXW1S8

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Sure Shot and Other Poems
Erica Funkhouser
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KPJ96Q

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