Allison Titus: High Lonesome
High Lonesome
Buch
- Saturnalia Books, 10/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781947817562
- Bestellnummer: 11503548
- Umfang: 120 Seiten
- Gewicht: 163 g
- Maße: 191 x 180 mm
- Stärke: 2 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.10.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
High Lonesome is a radio left on in a candlelit room, playing softly into the shadows as the hours fall through the evening. Interruptions of static, a slow confetti of grief drifting into the corners, mysterious white noise dispatches. Here is a meditation on estrangement--from an other, from the world, from the self--and its long aftermath spent learning how to cultivate tenderness and devotion in a world "where nobody / is tender enough," a practice that alternates between sorrow and transcendence. These poems are little ceremonies of attention to a variety of lonelinesses, both human and non-human. Strange, lyrical and funny, the third collection of poems by Allison Titus simultaneously reckons with and marvels at "the luminously borrowed / experiment that living is" in a world that feels terrible and hopeful, beautiful and precarious. Allison Titus
High Lonesome
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