Discontinued Township Roads
Автор:
Abby Chew, 84 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
9781625490599
"Come here, she says./Come here and listen." And watch: "My god, I am struck/down by the beauty of this..." The speakers of Abby Chew's DISCONTINUED TOWNSHIP ROADS embrace the world fiercely, and invite the reader into that embrace. "Abby Chew's DISCONTINUED TOWNSHIP ROADS captures a country at once wonderfully strange and disconcertingly familiar. Across these taut, lyrical poems, Sister reckons her way through a life intimate with land and work, the mysteries of family and desire. Chew's quick, measured lines breathe into the aching, resonant distances that exist between us: lovers, sister and brother, daughter and father. These poems are defined as much by what they leave unsaid as what they reveal: we glimpse a family's life in flared fragments, as a field revealed in lightning. The reader is left to create the constellation that binds these finely crafted pieces to each other. Chew reminds us how hungry we are for each other's stories, for the experience of the world we can...