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forces of gravityand the human desire for weightlessness.Marvin'spoems are jaunty and fierce,witty and intense;she.reads likc a formalist who has thoroughly learnedthe pleasuires and gains of abandon.  \nBut it is her excursions into wild image andpassionate song that win the reader's.heart.Theheart is central in World's Tallesr Disaster,which isessentially a book of love poems—love lost andfound,love rcquited,love abandoned and betrayed.An ancient form,the love poem has never bcen casy.to write,and in our postmodern age the difficultyhas only increased:Marvin is of her timc—herstrong,definitive voice has the sound and fecl of thepresent moment,and includes a canny irony.  \n“Before I go lct me thank the man who mugsyou...”hcer pocm“On Parting”begins,and thenprocceds to gratefully cnumcrate the awful thingsshe wishes for her cx-lover;The pocm cnds withthese lines:\"No thanks//to the skin forgctting thehands it welcomed,your/hands refusing to recallwhat they happened upon./How blessed is thebody you move in—how gone.\"The bitterswecttonc illustrates Marvin's ability to allow thecoexistencc.in her poems of wry aggression,andsimple grief for loss of the beloved.  \nIn World's Tallest Discaster the affairs of the heartare of course mctaphors for all human.complexity  \nNEWARK FREE LIBRARY750 LIBRARY AVENUENEWARK,DE 19711  \n12/10/2001  \n# DISCARDED\n\nWORLD'S TALLEST DISASTER  \n\n| Publication of this book was made possible by a generous grant  \u003Cbr>from the Greenwall Fund of The Academy of American Poets.   |\n| --- |\n\n# WORLD'S TALLESTDISASTER\n\nPOEMSCate Marvin  \nWINNER OF THE 2000KATHRYN A.MORTON PRIZE IN POETRYSELECTED BY ROBERT PINSKY  \nSarabande S Books  \nCopyright ◎2001 by Cate Marvin  \nAll rights reserved  \nFIRST EDITION  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced without written permission of thepublisher.Please direct inquiries to:  \nManaging EditorSarabande Books,Inc.2234 Dundee Road,Suite 200Louisville,KY 40205  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS 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Marvinand MaryJo VanKirk Marvin","cbCainaGgL68msuQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainaGgL68msuQ","pdf",3345712,104,"English","# Discarded\n# World's Tallest Disaster - Poems","[{\"question\":\"What is the overall theme of World's Tallest Disaster?\",\"answer\":\"The poems focus on love in multiple forms, including love lost, found, requited, abandoned, and betrayed, using the heart as a central metaphor for broader human complexity.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text describe Cate Marvin’s poetic style?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights extraordinary strength and balance, a brave and disciplined interplay with gravity, and a voice that is both fierce and witty, often with canny irony.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is credited with selecting the poems?\",\"answer\":\"The poems are selected by Robert Pinsky.\"}]","World's Tallest Disaster - Poems | PDF",1791865171,160]