Notwithstanding - Couverture souple

Wandless, William H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1639800522 ISBN 13 : 9781639800520

Editeur : Kelsay Books, 2021

Synopsis

William Wandless’s Notwithstanding features a large cast of fascinating characters who fumble, fail, and come up short, especially when they long to connect meaningfully with others, “learning much too soon / [they have] nothing but hunger in common.” Here are boxers, carnies, ballet dancers, vandals, a mathematician’s wife, and wrestlers who inflict “damage…with cruelty and care.” But underlying these poems is a tenderness toward humanity, a call for empathy, and the hope that “we might make amends, / we might become more than the damage we’ve done.” This book brims with rich music, deft metaphors, and brilliant images conjured by a keen intelligence and a big heart. It is a stunning debut.
—Jeffrey Bean, author of Diminished Fifth, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, and Woman Putting on Pearls

In these exquisite poems, Wandless wields language with the steady, skilled precision of a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting to the bone of lived experience. This precision does not hide but rather reveals an emotional resonance that, poem after poem, stuns the reader with its strength. These are poems that expose the marrow of what it means to be human: the restless beat of a drive towards connection so strong that one tries and tries again, even after countless failures, to rise, to reach, to uncover the moments in which our lives can be “opened up, filled with light, holding November at bay.”
—Emma Bolden, author of Maleficae, medi(t)ations, and House Is an Enigma

Despite its enigmatic title, this debut collection makes an unambiguous pronouncement: this is the arrival of a brilliant poet. Deft in craft (two sonnet sequences!) and diverse in thematic scope, Wandless’s poems soar and shimmer, line by line, with rich musicality and intricate imagery—in poems that investigate all the ways we try to connect, and often fail. What a delight to read a collection that invites re-reading, and has me looking forward already to the next book.
—Robert Fanning, author of Severance, Our Sudden Museum, American Prophet, and The Seed Thieves

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kelsay Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1639800522
• ISBN 13: 9781639800520
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 38
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg