The Laugh We Make When We Fall: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Autor Susan Fireren Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2021
In these poems, “toads/ pull their finished skins off/ delicately as evening gloves,” and in “Birds” you can look into an injured bird’s neck and see “everywhere it had ever flown…” see “insects, & seeds, & amphibians,/ & even a piece or two of snake.” Using list poems, exploded elemental odes, lyrics, and American sonnets, Firer writes her own survivor ecstasies: “I was buried under/deaths: mother’s, father’s, sisters’ deaths wrapped me/ like surgical wrap. And who and where would I be/ when all their gauzy deaths were removed?” In poem after poem in this collection, Firer begins to explore and to answer that question. This collection is "a wild generosity of spirit," creating an effect that is "sacramental."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496225986
ISBN-10: 1496225988
Pagini: 67
Dimensiuni: 139 x 215 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: The Backwaters Press
Colecția The Backwaters Press
Seria The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496225988
Pagini: 67
Dimensiuni: 139 x 215 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: The Backwaters Press
Colecția The Backwaters Press
Seria The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
"A wild generosity of spirit and vision characterizes this collection. The language marries the elemental and worldly with aplomb, and the effect is sacramental. A wedding lies at the heart of this book, impure life in the arms of morality. From this union a sensual spirituality bears the eros of our bodies in this time and space. The subject of the book is humble even as it is universal, hovering as it does over and within that great oxymoron, human love, which drives us to remember why we are here, to practice faithfulness to the world, and to give blood. Both fierce and vulnerable, these poems posses a Whitmanian fertility, raised by a grace wholly female to carry the consciousness in which we move through this century and to the seventh generation."—CarolAnn Russell, Backwaters Prize Judge for 2001
"To read the poetry of Susan Firer is to enter a unique building constructed by the imagination, like Kubla Khan's pleasure-dome, out of the shimmering materials of words. These poems reveal a love of language both for its own dear sake and for its ability to deliver the news some of us cannot live without."—Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001