If We Knew How to We Would - Couverture souple

Barnes, Emma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1776711882 ISBN 13 : 9781776711888

Editeur : Auckland University Press, 2025

Synopsis

I am an unmade bed. I am a single thing made up of many other things. I am a reason, a raising, a roof to be raised. I am a song you sing in your sleep. I am a collection of dots. I am a need you buried in the back garden. I am a literal spray of light across a wooden floor in a house where the sun has only just returned. I am a musical phrase. I am a lead light. I am a host. I am seven different names. I am all the fat in my body. I am the sky when it is early spring and I can’t believe I exist in this colour range. I am so blue.

If We Knew How to We Would answers a question nobody asked: How many thoughts can you work into a single poem?

Through breakups and a pandemic, health issues and deaths, Emma Barnes’s second collection is a riveting, overflowing and grief-stricken reckoning with the ordinary: a skinful of spit; insides scooped out with a melon baller; cracked like an egg and nothing inside. ‘It is too much to say nothing about. It is nothing to say too much about.’

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emma Barnes (Pakeha, they/them) studied at the University of Canterbury and lives in Aro Valley, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington. Their poetry has been published in journals including Landfall, Turbine Kapohau, Cordite and Best New Zealand Poems (2008, 2010, 2021). They performed in Show Ponies in 2022 and 2023. They are the author of the poetry collection I Am in Bed with You (AUP, 2021) and co-editor with Chris Tse of Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (AUP, 2021).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Auckland University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1776711882
• ISBN 13: 9781776711888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible