Paper Crown - Couverture souple

Christle, Heather

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472158687 ISBN 13 : 9781472158680

Editeur : Corsair, 2025

Synopsis

PAPER CROWN combines the play and humour of Heather's earliest work with the emotional and autobiographical turn of THE CRYING BOOK. Christle explores familial relationships, the nature of memory, and the outer edges of imagination.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Heather Christle is the author of the poetry collections The Difficult Farm; The Trees The Trees, which won the Believer Poetry Award; What Is Amazing; and Heliopause. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, London Review of Books, Poetry and many other journals. She teaches creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. The Crying Book is her first book of non-fiction.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Mistake


For years I have seen
dead animals on the highway

and grieved for them
only to realize they are

not dead animals
they are t shirts

or bits of blown tire
and I have found

myself with this
excess of grief

I have made with
no object to let

it spill over and
I have not known

where to put it or
keep it and then today

I thought I know
I can give it to you

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

'Paper Crown renders the precise darts and folds of lyric attention, revealing poetry to be a timekeeping as intimate and exact as that of perfect friendship or the pineal gland: "The click of time saying yes"'


~ Joyelle McSweeney



Paper Crown is Heather Christle's first new collection of poems in over a decade.


The poems in this exhuberant collection conjure moments when the world's events - a child's words, early twentieth-century predictions of drone warfare, dinner with friends - align themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity.


With tenderness and verve, honesty and curiosity, Paper Crown invites readers to look up from its pages and recognize that the day going on around them could very well be its own poem.


'I have never before read a book like Paper Crown. In it, Heather Christle opens the doors of her mind as if it is a library where we are welcome to roam so long as we understand that "If pages fall from high / enough they can take down a house." Seemingly domestic in their sly meditations, always exultant in their view of the natural world, these poems clarify the mind of one fully aware of the fear and despair that dwells in and around us in the midst of our desires whether they be erotic or artistic or the desire to be awed by a stunning book. This is a stunning book. I am stunned'


~Jericho Brown

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corsair
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472158687
• ISBN 13: 9781472158680
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Corsair; info@msi.com; ; Ekkersrijt 6050; GA Son; GA Son; 5692; Pays-Bas