Rabbit Heart - Couverture souple

Shuttleworth, Ciara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1622889177 ISBN 13 : 9781622889174

Editeur : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Ciara Shuttleworth's first collection of poems, Rabbit Heart, taps into the carnal energies of her forebears, poets like Whitman, whose "body electric" is channeled in "Electric Like Lightning" I want to feel electric, high voltage, my body / housing unharnessed megawatts equal to a single shard / of lightning"; and, if not lightning, being "soaked / by rain . . . so the electricity runs over my body," "Body as home." Or like Dickinson, in "Theory and Practice," where Shuttleworth writes "The waves are writing a love letter / in cursive, alluring," and "pull from the depths synonyms for love in their wire cages." Poem after poem, from Gypsy Rose Lee to the wreckage of ships and Norma Jean Baker, Shuttleworth's poetry takes you to surprising people, places, and states of heart. She writes longingly, "Your heart // beats slower than hers as she lies beside you / at night and tries to match / her breath to yours, wanting your hearts / to beat in one iambic rhythm," but, understand, the poet may also be uncompromising in her poetry, as in "Moving Day" "Call forth: wrecking balls, bulldozer . . . Bury what will not burn."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

CIARA SHUTTLEWORTH received an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Norton Introduction to Literature, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stephen F. Austin State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1622889177
• ISBN 13: 9781622889174
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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