The Game of Boxes: Poems - Couverture souple

Barnett, Catherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555976204 ISBN 13 : 9781555976200

Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2012

Synopsis

*Winner of the 2012 James Laughlin Award*

The second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose "poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifully made" (Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post)

Everyone asks us what we're afraid of
but children aren't supposed to say.
We could put loneliness on the list.
We could put the list on the list, its infinity.
We could put infinity down.
--from "Fields of No One to Ask"

In Catherine Barnett's The Game of Boxes, love stutters its way in and out of both family and erotic bonds. Whittled down to song and fragments of story, these poems teeter at the edge of dread. A gang of unchaperoned children, grappling with blame and forgiveness, speak with tenderness and disdain about "the mothers" and "the fathers," absent figures they seek in "the faces of clouds" and in the cars that pass by. Other poems investigate the force of maternal love and its at-times misguided ferocities. The final poem, a long sequence of nocturnes, eschews almost everything but the ghostly erotic. These are bodies at the edge of experience, watchful and defamiliarized.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space, Human Hours, winner of the Believer Book Award, and The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555976204
• ISBN 13: 9781555976200
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
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• Personne responsable: non disponible