The Words We Do Not Have

• Druk: 2021
• Autor: Steve Brisendine
• Wydawca: Spartan Press

In The Words We Do Not Have, Steve Brisendine brings experience into sharp focus-a road trip with his son, evenings spent playing pool, an abused childhood classmate-along with meditative explorations of life, death, aging, and faith. The author employs as a title for each poem an unusual foreign word (along with its definition), a strategy that unifies the collection, while also yielding delightful and unexpected trajectories as the poems unfold. Brisendine's imaginative lexicon offers us a space where "a heart has/ spilled itself, where words bloomed/ into something past words."

                                

-Janice Northerns, author of Some Electric Hum

"We have enough wind in Kansas," Steve Brisendine opens his excellent new book. "When you / walk into it, it pulls." Beginning with the language of wind, Brisbane reveals a dark world through a series of tongues. In "Mokita," a classmate is abused and silent, eventually dead. We learn the title's Kilivila meaning: "something everyone knows but no one talks about." Outlining a "slippery downhill way," these grave, sometimes minutial poems (as in "Qarba," the appearance of white hairs in a man's beard) highlight how life gives us "hope of reunion . . . but also the knowledge that such might never happen. Dark, global, nuanced in how it reveals a gritty world." 

-Tyler Robert Sheldon, Editor-in-Chief of            

         MockingHeart Review and author of Consolation  

         Prize (Finishing Line Press, 2018)

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  2. Książki obcojęzyczne »
  3. Książki obcojęzyczne - beletrystyka
• Język wydania: angielski
• EAN: 9781952411526
• Liczba stron: 84
• Wymiary: 12.7x20.3cm
• Data premiery: 01.01.2021