Mean

By: Colette LaBouff Atkinson

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Hardcover | 15 October 2008 | Edition Number 1

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In the appropriately titled "Mean," Colette LaBouff Atkinson's speakers confront a series of cruel lovers, estranged ex-husbands and ex-ex-wives, neglectful parents, disrespectful children, menacing drunks, would-be rapists, well-meaning but ineffectual teachers, and that annoying kid in first grade who wouldn't leave you alone. Managing to "say" what most of us would only think but never dare speak out loud, this stunning debut collection reveals that the horrors and cruelty we experience in everyday life can turn out to be very real indeed. But Atkinson does not merely rake her subjects across the coals: she deftly exposes, instead, how the world mirrors back to us our own meanness, lending it a truth and a history. In forty-three deadpan, often merciless prose poems that are masterpieces of the form, "Mean" lays bare the darkness within the narrator's heart as well as in ours.
"Colette Labouff Atkinson's artful laconicism attains the force of a shout, without ever raising its voice. The intelligent, merciless narrative cool arrays a sad comedy, with an unemphatic but penetrating 'and then . . . and then': accounts of love pursued far more often than it is glimpsed or realized."--Robert Pinsky

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"Colette LaBouff Atkinson's artful laconicism attains the force of a shout, without ever raising its voice. The intelligent, merciless narrative cool arrays a sad comedy, with an unemphatic but penetrating 'and then... and then': accounts of love pursued far more often than it is glimpsed or realized." - Robert Pinsky"

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Acknowledgments
Space Race
Mean Mean
Medium Intense Red Copper Rocket Loose
Heat Wave Hart Crane Slept Here Four London(1987)
Wrecking Three Days of the Condor
The Glass Show Lounge Bakasana Deal
I'm sorry I was blind
Hover Intention (The Dead Leaves)
Gain Spring Fling New World Laurel
Replacement Monkey
Spirit Proximity Juju's
Sister Gun Dog Flower Girl Park Bench
Perhaps this verse would please you better—Sue—(2)
Prosthetic Garden Variety For God's Sake, Get Out Route 1652
Graphic Novel Romance(V for Vendetta) Ghost Squad Hips 1971
Portof Los Angeles Taking it like a little soldier, aren't you?
Fortune-Telling Gardena Freeway, California
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