Carol Snow Boeken

Carol Snow's award-winning poetry has been admired and celebrated as "work of difficult beauty" (Robert Hass), "ever restless, ever re-framing the frame of reference" ( Boston Review ), teaching us "how brutally self-transforming a verbal action can be when undertaken in good faith" (Jorie Graham). In this, her third volume, Snow continues to mine the language to its most mysterious depths and to explore the possibilities its meanings and mechanics hold for definition, transformation, and emotional truth. These poems place us before, and in, language--as we stand before, and in, the world.The Seventy Prepositions comprises three suites of poems. The first, "Vocabulary Sentences," reflects on words and reality by taking as a formal motif the sort of sentences used to test vocabulary skills in elementary school. The poems of the second suite, "Vantage," gather loosely around questions of perspective and perception. The closing suite finds its inspiration in the Japanese dry-landscape gardens known as karesansui, such as the famous rock garden at Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto. Here the poet approaches composition as one faces a "miniature Zen garden," choosing and positioning words rather than stones, formally, precisely, evocatively.

Natalie Quackenbush is approaching thirty, drowning in debt-and did she mention she lives with her parents? It's the kind of small talk she'd rather avoid. So she and her friends have found a new way to entertain themselves on the Scottsdale, Arizona singles scene: lying. It's an innocent game, but when Natalie meets a guy she actually likes-and wants to see again-how will she explain that her mother isn't actually insane? Or that she doesn't really work with convicted murderers? If she can find a way out of her lies without destroying this fragile new relationship along the way, she might just wind up with something real.

Plenty of thirtysomething women would be thrilled to look like a teenager. But journalist Kathy Hopkins wishes she could be taken a little more seriously-or, at the very least, order a glass of wine without producing ID. Now her youthful appearance is forcing her into an undercover assignment she could do posing as a freshman at a small liberal arts college where, rumor has it, a secret prostitution ring is flourishing.It could mean a career-making exposé. But right now, pretending to be eighteen means dealing with a Clay Aiken--obsessed roommate, late-night parties that test her aging body--and most embarrassing of all, a massive crush on a guy who's just turned legal. Suddenly, Kathy's got the chance to do it all over again, hopefully better this time. Fortunately she's a quick learner.

Claire chillt nach der Schule am liebsten mit ihrer besten Freundin Beanie am Strand, geht schwimmen und schmiedet Pläne, wie sie dem süßen Nate den Kopf verdrehen könnte. Doch eines Nachts – kurz nach ihrem 15. Geburtstag – passiert es: Sie switcht in den Körper eines anderen Mädchens. Halb so wild, denn das passiert ihr nicht zum ersten Mal. Doch dieses Mal geht etwas schief – und Claire steckt in einem fremden Körper fest! Aber nicht in irgendeinem. Ausgerechnet mit Larissa, der Schönsten der Schönen, hat die unscheinbare Claire den Körper getauscht. Und zu allem Überfluss hat sich auch noch Nate genau in dieses Mädchen verliebt ... Plötzlich Miss Makellos – blond, schlank, mit endlos langen Beinen und einem Schrank voller cooler Klamotten –, ist Claire heiß umschwärmt. Doch wie lange kann sie das Spiel spielen? Und wann ist der Spuk vorbei?