American Melancholy: Poems by Joyce Carol Oates

American Melancholy: Poems

Joyce Carol Oates

128 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective medium-paced

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A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent a...

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Moods

reflective 78%
emotional 64%
dark 50%
sad 28%
challenging 25%
informative 17%
tense 10%
hopeful 7%
inspiring 7%
mysterious 7%

Pace

medium 55%
slow 22%
fast 22%

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3.4

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