Tooth Box - Couverture souple

Irish, Jenny

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1956005323 ISBN 13 : 9781956005325

Editeur : Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Tooth Box tells of a girlhood familiar to many—a girlhood of strange cruelties and the ever-present threat of violence. Irish writes with a mesmerizing attention to detail and a gift for the startling and uncanny. The girl in these sensuous poems wanders through a dark fairytale-esque world, alert to being taken, cut, punctured, and eaten: "to expect care from no one." It's one of the few poetry books I've read that accurately captures the tender, but brutal relationships between girls. Written with a fluid, dreamlike beauty, it is "a story built from the sticks and bleached and brittle bones of a truth...about girls who...become animals to save themselves."

Jessica Cuello, Author of Liar

In the title poem of this stunning collection, a tooth box is described as a “fragile capsule for caging time.” The same could be said—could it not?—of a poem, yet these poems and prose pieces are not fragile capsules—they are stones sharpened to points; they are stories that burst open like our spiral galaxy, growing larger and larger with each turn. Jenny Irish powerfully undoes the time called girlhood, drawing us into a world—our world—where girls can so easily disappear, dragged under by men, by alligator, by indifference, a world where girls brim with bewilderment and hunger, a world where even the softest of cosseting can’t keep us safe. Tooth Box is unflinching, unforgettable.

Gayle Brandeis, Author of Many Restless Concerns

What does Jenny Irish’s Tooth Box hold? A rabid girlhood of hybrid understanding, a quiet body yearning to express itself, and a wilderness of adults with mixed intentions. This book is stunning in its ability to move through and across form as a means to best express childhood discovery and trauma. Leaving readers wondering, where is my tooth box? What secret selves does my tooth box hold? Inventive, gut-wrenching, and full of strength, Irish’s work is in a category of its own.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Author of Lima :: Limón

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jenny Irish is from Maine and lives in Arizona, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University. She is the author of the collections Common Ancestor, I Am Faithful, and the forthcoming chapbook Hatch.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1956005323
• ISBN 13: 9781956005325
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• 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