Etiquette for a Pandemic: & Other Social Distancing Protocols - Couverture souple

Sumners, Pamela L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1737987201 ISBN 13 : 9781737987208

Editeur : Backroom Window Press, 2021

Synopsis

In this, her third collection of poems, Pamela Sumners takes few prisoners. She writes of subjects as diverse as Daylight Saving Time, crows, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and games of truth or dare with an acerbic wit that belies the seriousness of her theme: the real-world social distances revealed by the COVID pandemic. Sumners has a rare gift for metaphors that surprise, ’cause of death’ as ‘a cessation of birthdays’ for instance, but she also has a gift for piling up metaphors that is hard to illustrate–look for it in her poems; though here’s one: ‘the Governor of this the Show-Me bone-headed literalist state,’ skewering Missouri, its governor, and its bible-thumping legislators all at once. Of the collection, Sumners notes in the volume’s opening pages, "All the poems . . . address the distances between people. They reflect the impact of disease on us as well as our dis-ease with each other, the distances we keep, and whether we try to close them, even with our lovers."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Backroom Window Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1737987201
• ISBN 13: 9781737987208
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 84
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