Quite Apart: Poems Contributor(s): Languell, Krystal (Author) |
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ISBN: 1629221422 ISBN-13: 9781629221427 Publisher: University of Akron Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2018051841 |
Series: Akron Series in Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.05 lbs) 88 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Quite Apart asks what about after survival? in a chronicle of attempts to have a heart in a rough world. Haunted by work and its wasted hours, the book offers a glimpse of self-rendered as subtext beneath the sheen of productivity. Inventive formal poems provide a kind of alibi, mirroring the inflexibility of the environment--driving through mountains, bleeding in alleys, losing keys in a bar parking lot--to allow some emotion to pass through, tenderness intact. The action among forms of address moves across the sections from direct to readerly, to more distant, back to the last/lost sequence, and ultimately into an intimate direct address, which builds up a reserve of trust adequate to collapse the distance of a cool operator. Mediated by grammatical invention, the collection enacts the making of an authentic place and self, reckoning with difficult truths (failures, omissions) to arrive at a state of peace having weathered some storms. It returns to a core and singular perspective, a knowing eye, that captures absurdity and tragedy, the absurdity of tragedy, to find--beyond vigilance--a balance between acceptance and bucking, which is perhaps another name for love. |